Commonwealth of Independent States
Eurasian intergovernmental organization
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| April 2025 | A poll indicated 41.9% in favor of leaving the CIS and 32% against. |
| March 28 2025 | Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev proposed a digitization agenda to modernize CIS economies, aiming to address economic challenges and improve regional technological development. |
| May 2024 | A poll showed 40.5% of Moldovans in favor of leaving the CIS and 35.5% against. |
| 2023 | Second CIS Games were held in Belarus. |
| December 2023 | Moldova announced intention to fully withdraw from the CIS by the end of 2024, with plans to retain economic, social protection, and healthcare agreements. |
| October 2023 | Moldova denounced 70 out of approximately 282 agreements with the CIS. |
| July 2023 | Moldova passed a law denouncing its membership in the CIS Inter-Parliamentary Assembly. |
| June 8 2023 | Seven CIS countries (Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan) signed an Agreement on Free Trade in Services, Establishment, Operations, and Investment in Sochi, marking a significant step in economic cooperation within the Commonwealth of Independent States. |
| May 15 2023 | Moldova's Parliament President Igor Grosu stated the country would withdraw from the CIS Interparliamentary Assembly. |
| May 3 2023 | Ukraine formally withdraws from the 1992 agreement that set up the CIS Interparliamentary Assembly. |
| February 23 2023 | Moldova began withdrawing from multiple CIS treaties in preparation for EU accession. |
| 2022 | The city of Karakol in Kyrgyzstan was designated as the CIS Cultural Capital of the year. |
| November 30 2022 | Moldova announced suspension of participation in CIS meetings. |
| November 1 2022 | Verkhovna Rada MP Roksolana Pidlasa proposed a draft bill to denounce the CIS Free Trade Area Treaty from 18 October 2011, arguing for trade decolonization and highlighting Ukraine's alternative trade agreements. |
| June 14 2022 | Moldovan Minister of Foreign Affairs Nicu Popescu announced the government was considering leaving the CIS. |
| 2021 | World Bank Group reported life expectancy data for Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) countries, revealing variations across member nations. |
| 2021 | First CIS Games took place in Kazan, with 9 nations and 2,000 athletes participating. |
| August 2021 | A poll in Moldova found 48.1% of respondents supported withdrawal from the CIS. |
| May 19 2018 | Poroshenko signs a decree formally ending Ukraine's participation in CIS statutory bodies. |
| April 2018 | Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko indicates Ukraine will formally leave the CIS. |
| January 2018 | A similar bill to denounce CIS membership was proposed in Moldova's parliament. |
| 2017 | The Armenian city of Goris was declared the CIS Cultural Capital of the year. |
| 2017 | Festival of National Sports and Games of the Commonwealth of Independent States was held in Ulyanovsk, featuring sports like sambo, tug of war, mas-wrestling, gorodki, belt wrestling, lapta, bandy, kettlebell lifting, chess, and archery. |
| January 2 2016 | The Ukrainian Government responded to Russia's trade suspension by implementing trade restrictions on Russia. |
| January 1 2016 | Ukraine and the European Union began provisionally applying the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement, which prompted discussions among Eurasian Economic Union member states about customs and trade implications. |
| December 2015 | Russia promulgated a decree suspending its CIS Free Trade Agreement with Ukraine, effective from 1 January 2016. |
| December 22 2015 | Eurasian Economic Union member states held consultations to discuss the implications of the EU-Ukraine trade agreement and potential customs control measures. |
| September 2015 | Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirms Ukraine will continue participating in the CIS 'on a selective basis'. Ukraine has no representatives in the CIS Executive Committee building. |
| 2014 | Ukraine stopped participating in the CIS following the Russian annexation of Crimea. |
| March 25 2014 | Moldova's parliament tabled legislative initiatives to denounce the CIS creation agreement, though these were not approved. |
| March 14 2014 | A bill is introduced to Ukraine's parliament to denounce their ratification of the CIS Creation Agreement, but it is not approved. |
| February 2014 | Start of the Russo-Ukrainian war, leading to deteriorating relations between Ukraine and Russia and causing Ukraine to consider ending its participation in the CIS. |
| 2011 | Ukraine signs the Commonwealth of Independent States Free Trade Area agreement. |
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