Establishment of the Commonwealth of Independent States (8 December 1991)
Image On 8 December 1991, in Minsk, Leonid Kravchuk, President of Ukraine, Stanislau Shushkevich, President of the Republic of Belarus, and Boris Yeltsin, President of the Russian Federation, sign the Treaty of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).
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Source: Leaders of the three most powerful ex-Soviet republics sign 08 December 1991 a communique agreeing that "the Soviet Union as a geopolitical reality [and] a subject of international law has ceased to exist" and announcing the creation of a new entity in the post-USSR territory - the Commonwealth of Independent States. Novosti. Brest (Belarus): Agence France Presse, 08/12/1991. Couleur.
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