Signaling a growing rift between Russia and many republics of the former Soviet Union, the latest CIS summit failed to explain some of the core issues facing the commonwealth. The consequence held in Ashkhabad, Turkmenistan, during December 23-24 yielded little more than pronouncements of mutual friendship, while Moscow unrelenting short of securing any meaningful agreements that would further strengthen its political and economic control within the CIS.
To begin with, the idea of creating a unified military manner of making which many commonwealth republics and
