Commonwealth of Independent States






Executive secretaries

May 1993 - 29 Apr 1998 Ivan Korotchenya (Belarus)
(1st time) (b. 1948)
29 Apr 1998 - 4 Mar 1999 Boris Berezovsky (Russia) (b. 1946)
4 Mar 1999 - 2 Apr 1999 Ivan Korotchenya (Belarus)
(2nd time) (acting) (s.a.)
2 Apr 1999 - 14 Jun 2004 Yury Yarov (Russia) (b. 1942)
14 Jun 2004 - 5 Oct 2007 Vladimir Rushailo (Russia) (b. 1953)
5 Oct 2007 - Sergey Lebedev (Russia) (b. 1948)

CIS membership

21 Dec 1991 Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan1, Ukraine, Uzbekistan

9 Dec 1993 Georgia


1Withdrew 26 Aug 2005.

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