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Descriptor English: Commonwealth of Independent States
Descriptor Spanish: Comunidad de Estados Independientes
Descriptor Comunidad de Estados Independientes
Entry term(s) Commonwealth de Estados Independientes
naciones de la CEI
Scope note: Una unión económica de Armenia, Azerbaiyán, Belarús, Georgia, Kazajstán, Kirguistán, Moldavia, Rusia, Tayikistán, Turkmenistán, Ucrania y Uzbekistán.
Descriptor Portuguese: Comunidade dos Estados Independentes
Descriptor French: Communauté des États indépendants
Entry term(s): CIS Nations
Tree number(s): I01.615.500.188
Z01.586.200
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D017517
Scope note: An economic union of Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Ukraine.
Annotation: each independent state is available; consider also RUSSIA (PRE-1917) & USSR for historical material; CATALOGER: Use NAF entry
Allowable Qualifiers: EH ethnology
EP epidemiology
Previous Indexing: USSR (1975-1992)
specific Soviet republic (1975-1992)
History Note: 93
DeCS ID: 30777
Unique ID: D017517
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Date Established: 1993/01/01
Date of Entry: 1992/05/14
Revision Date: 2017/07/17
Commonwealth of Independent States - Preferred
Concept UI M0026582
Scope note An economic union of Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Ukraine.
Preferred term Commonwealth of Independent States
Entry term(s) CIS Nations



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