APPENDIX B

A Brief Scanning of the CIS Countries

The following is a brief scanning of the Commonwealth of Independent State (CIS) countries to help in the understanding of their challenges and competitive advantages in furthering their economies and global market integrations that are discussed in this book.

The CIS, as discussed in Chapter 3, is a regional organization, which was created in December 1991 by the former Soviet Republics. In the adopted Declaration, the participants of the Commonwealth declared their interaction on the basis of sovereign equality.

Originally, there were 12 member states that were part of the CIS, including Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, ...

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