I wonder why the countries we threaten to invade and destroy walk away from us!
Note: it should say 'end of 2024', takes more than a week to wrap this up it seems
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For anybody wondering, this will leave only Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan, Armenia and Belarus in CIS (alongside Russia ofc). Turkmenistan is an associate state in a "I can take or leave it" sort of way, they've been participating in CIS activities but are not reliant on it and are increasingly skeptical about its benefits.
My money’s on Armenia being the next one out. They had a democratic movement winning power (against the objections of Russia), which was followed by Russia shirking its peacekeeping obligations when Azerbaijan invaded Nagorno-Karabakh, so there’s no love lost for Russia in Yerevan these days.
Kazakhstan has explicitly refused to help Russia in Ukraine and is slowly forging closer ties with the west.
Edit to add a source: https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/shocked-by-ukraine-war-russian-neighbour-kazakhstan-looks-west-2022-11-17/
Russia gets very, very angry when you transition out of CIS.
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