ARTICLE: https://www.rferl.org/a/poroshenko-recalls-ukraine-s-envoys- Ukraine, today has recalled all its envoy's from the CIS, a useless, failed from start union of countries scarred by the USSR. This is one of the weirdest collections of countries forming a highly strained alliance.Kyiv has been an associate member of the CIS since it was formed following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.Full members include Russia and eight former Soviet republics -- Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan.Half the countries are enemies with each other and Moldova is on the cusp of bailing on a union led by a country that invaded them. Russia has many things to say about Ukraine leaving, but it's all propaganda and late whining.There are currently 10 member states left- Armenia + Azerbaijan HATE eachother- Azerbaijan and Russia have bad relationship since Russia annexed part of Azerbaijan- Moldova + Russia are on the outs and Russia occupies part of Moldova who plans on leaving as soon as EU "considers" them- Belarus is on the fence between 1st world and Russia since the invasion of Ukraine- Ukraine + Russia HATE each other and Russia invaded Ukraine not prompting them to leave- Georgia + Russia HATE each other and Russia Invaded again so Georgia left- Can't say that Armenia's latest "revolution" was good for russia as their pro-russian, ruling forever president is now gone along with his party.- Russia tried to force all member states to adopt Russian as a main language (presumably to invade countries to protect "russian speakers").. only 3 agreed- Kazakhstan, who previously agreed to adopt russian as an official language, has rewritten their entire alphabet away from Cyrillic letters and adopted Latin letters just this year (maybe so russians don't mistake them for "russian speakers" needing protection)- The non-warring states don't have any kind of economic significance worldwide.