Putin pledges closer ties with ex-Soviet neighbors at CIS summit
Putin said CIS trade reached $110 billion in 2025 and said 90% of transactions were settled in national currencies.
- 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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In Turkmenistan, Putin celebrated the growth of Russian trade with CIS countries and highlighted a 21% increase in trade with Iran in 2025, on the margins of Western sanctions.
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.
Before the leaders of the CIS countries, the Russian president mentioned that the group could further strengthen cooperation.
"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...
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