The Commonwealth was established mainly “to serve further development and strengthening of relations of friendship, good neighborhood, mutual understanding and mutually beneficial cooperation between member states”. Within the above mentioned principles, the member states of the CIS are...

This paper traces the way that russia has started and is continuing to compy with the commitemnts as a member in order to reach the standars of Concil of Europe, particulary the process of internalization of these norms and the domestic level and their role in shaping the identities, intereset...