>Commonwealth of Independent States Founded Dec. 8, 1991, the organization is made up of 11 of the former republics of the USSR, or Soviet Union. Russia is the largest and richest. Three other former republics - Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia - became independent nations earlier in 1991. (The Soviet Union was formally dissolved in December 1991. Its last leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, resigned on Dec. 25, 1991.) >The republics (with adjective form in parentheses): >Armenia (Armenian): Azerbaijan (Azerbaijani): Belarus (Belausian); Kazakhstan (Kazakh); Kyrgyzstan (Kyrgyz); Moldova (Moldovan); Russia (Russian); Tajikistan (Tajik); Turkmenistan (Turkmen); Ukraine (no the); (Ukrainian); Uzbekistan (Uzbek); Georgia (Georgian) quit CIS in 2008. >DATELINES: MOSCOW stands alone. Follow all other datelines with the name of the state. ALMATY, Kazakhstan.
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