Commonwealth of Independent States (Corporate Name)

To be treated as an organization, NOT A JURISDICTION, with its subordinate bodies established in English--per LC CPSO

Do not confuse the Commonwealth of Independent States with the heading Former Soviet republics, WHICH IS TO BE TREATED AS A SUBJECT HEADING ONLY (sh92-2682)

Facts on file, Jan. 23, 1992: p. 1067 (Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)); Dec. 31, 1991: p. 969 (the Soviet Union officially disbanded Dec. 25, replaced by a Commonwealth of Independent States made up of 11 of the 12 former Soviet constituent republics; the commonwealth is not in itself a state but an alliance of fully independent states)

Info. fr. BGN, Jan. 22, 1992 (Commonwealth of Indepependent States treated by the Dept. of State as an organization similar to EEC, etc.)

Novoe russkoe slovo, 23 i︠a︡n. 1992: t.p. (Sodruzhestva nezavisimykh gosudarstv)

Schrettl, W. Konjunkturanalyse für die Gemeinschaft Unabhängiger Staaten unter den Bedingungen von Depression und Shocktherapie, 1991.

Clement, H. Die Energiewirtschaft der GUS, 1992: t.p. (GUS) p. 1 (GUS=former Soviet Union)

Prodolzhitelʹnostʹ prozhivanii︠a︡ naselenii︠a︡ SSSR v meste protoi︠a︡nnogo zhitelʹstva, 1993: CIP t.p. (Statisticheskiĭ komitet Sodruzhestva nezavisimykh gosudarstv) pref. (Statisticheskiĭ komitet SNG; CIS Committee on Statistics)

La Fin de l'URSS, 1992: p. 4 of cover (Communauté des Etats indépendants (CEI))

Social development of the Commonwealth States, 1993: CIP t.p. (Commonwealth States; Commonwealth of Independent States)

Seize the day!1993: p. 1, etc (Newly Independent States of the Former Soviet Union; NIS)

Iniziative comunitarie nell'Europa centro-orientale e nella CSI, c1993: p. 9 (Comunità di Stati indipendenti)

Hebeṭim shel zehut ṿe-śafah bi-ḳeliṭat ʻole Ḥever ha-Medinot ha-ʻAtsmaʼiyot, 1994.

Aktualʹnai︠a︡ politicheskai︠a︡ situat︠s︡ii︠a︡ v Respublike Moldavii︠a︡, 1998: t.p. (Strany Sodruzhestva)

Histaglut ʻolim me-Ḥever ha-ʻAmim la-ḳibuts ṿela-arets, 1995.

Rosii︠a︡, i︠a︡ku my--, between 1995 and 1997: t.p. (Spivdruz︠h︡nosti nezalez︠h︡nykh derz︠h︡av) p. 9, etc. (SND)

Zajednica nezavisnih država (ZND), 1998.

Itsenäisten valtioiden yhteisön (IVY) sotilaallinen integraatio, 1998.

Ho Hellēnismos stis paraeuxeinies chōres, c2002: t.p. (Koinopoliteia Anexartētōn Kratōn)

Tongnip Kukka Yŏnhap (CIS) Koryŏin sahoe yŏnʼgu, 2003: t.p. (Tongnip Kukka Yŏnhap [in Kor.]; CIS)

Federacja Rosyjska--Wspólnota Niepodległych Państw, 2011.

BGN, 04-29-92 (Soviet Union has ceased to exist; nothing has replaced it; 15 former Soviet republics are now independent)