Putin pledges closer ties with ex-Soviet neighbors at CIS summit
Putin said 90% of Russia’s trade with CIS members used national currencies as he urged closer cooperation among former Soviet nations.
- On Friday, October 9, 2026, Russian President Vladimir Putin joined leaders from Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan at the Commonwealth of Independent States summit in Turkmenbashi, Turkmenistan.
- Facing Western sanctions over the war in Ukraine, Russia expanded trade with former Soviet neighbors to over $110 billion in 2025, with 90% of transactions using national currencies for financial independence.
- Putin praised the CIS as an "authoritative regional integration structure," stating the Russian language acts as a "powerful uniting force" maintaining ties developed over centuries across the Commonwealth.
- Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian attended the summit as an observer and held talks with Putin on Thursday, discussing regional conflict resolution and bilateral relations between Moscow and Tehran.
- Pezeshkian claimed Iran is putting forward new proposals to resolve regional conflicts, while Putin promised to "do all we can to help you resolve the situation" following adjustments to suggestions.
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Putin pledges closer ties with ex-Soviet neighbours at CIS summit
Putin said the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), a loose grouping of former Soviet nations, had become an “authoritative regional integration structure” helping maintain “economic, social, cultural and humanitarian ties developed by our peoples over centuries.”
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Putin pledges closer ties with ex-Soviet neighbors at CIS summit
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has hailed cooperation with other ex-Soviet nations and vowed to help strengthen economic and other ties between them.
"Over the past three and a half decades, the Commonwealth has truly come a long way, establishing itself as an influential regional integration association," Vladimir Putin said in his address at the restricted format..
"Over the past three and a half decades, the Commonwealth has truly come a long way, establishing itself as an influential regional integration association," Vladimir Putin said in his address at the restricted format meeting of the CIS Heads...
President Vladimir Putin stated that the CIS format had allowed the Commonwealth countries to maintain and develop centuries-old economic, social and humanitarian ties. The Russian leader at a small meeting of CIS leaders noted that the Commonwealth of Independent States format had enabled its participants to preserve the ties that had been built up over the centuries, transmitting the RIA News. "In three and a half decades, the Commonwealth has…
Today, a summit of the Council of Heads of State of the Commonwealth of Independent States began in the Awasa National Tourism Zone on the coast of the Caspian Sea, under the chairmanship of President Serdar Berdymuhamedov of Turkmenistan.
The Russian President praised cooperation with countries that had previously joined the Soviet Union and pledged to help strengthen economic ties with them during the CIS summit.
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