Commonwealth of Independent States

American  

[kom-uhn-welth uhv in-di-pen-duhnt steyts] / ˈkɒm ənˌwɛlθ əv ˈɪn dɪˌpɛn dənt ˈsteɪts /

noun

1. an alliance of former Soviet republics formed in December 1991, including: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russian Federation, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan. C.I.S.

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Commonwealth of Independent States British  

noun

1.  CIS.  a loose organization of former Soviet republics, excluding the Baltic States, formed in 1991

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Example Sentences

In 2021, the Health and Human Services Department published an analyst’s note linking Cl0p to a cyber threat group believed to operating from somewhere within the Commonwealth of Independent States, including former Soviet Union countries.

From Washington Times • Jun. 28, 2023

The Russian ministry had said the attackers were from a nation in the Commonwealth of Independent States, which groups nine ex-Soviet republics, including Tajikistan.

From Reuters • Oct. 15, 2022

CIS is the Commonwealth of Independent States, a union of Russia, Belarus, Moldova and several Central Asian countries.

From Washington Post • Oct. 15, 2022

The topic was reforming, indeed saving, the economies of Russia and the former Soviet states that formed the Commonwealth of Independent States in the aftermath of the USSR’s collapse.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 2, 2022

How will the Commonwealth of Independent States function once goals and purposes of nation-states take over those assumed in a nebulously defined commonwealth?

From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Nadin, Mihai