
Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov stated that the CIS serves as a foundation for advanced integration and announced that multiple agenda issues will be addressed at the upcoming Turkmenistan summit.
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The Commonwealth of Independent States is an international organization consisting of countries of the former Soviet Union.
According to Dmitry Peskov, the CIS has multiple issues on its agenda and all of them will be covered at the upcoming CIS summit in Turkmenistan
MOSCOW, October 8. /TASS/. The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) has been a platform for more advanced integration processes, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Thursday.
"The CIS format has paved the way for more advanced forms of integration, which is also very important," Peskov argued.
The CIS has multiple issues on its agenda, he said, and all of them will be covered at the upcoming CIS summit in Turkmenistan.

Official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova expressed hope that countries advocating peace in Ukraine will be able to convince supporters of the war to choose a political and diplomatic path to settlement.

The EU is rushing to adopt NATO-like emergency protocols ahead of elections in France and Germany while approving its 22nd sanctions package on Russia. Meanwhile, Germany faces industrial pressures and weighs a potential return to Russian energy imports.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that Moscow will respond in the event of aggression from Western Europe, citing clear statements by Vladimir Putin.

Lithuania intends to seek from the European Union a ban on the transit of Russian grain, calling the current situation unacceptable. The Baltic countries are already taking measures to stop supplies through their ports.

The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, said that Russia does not threaten anyone and Moscow has no plans for an armed conflict with Western Europe. BND head Martin Jäger previously warned of the risk of Germany being drawn into a possible confrontation with Russia. President Putin, in an interview with Tucker Carlson, also denied plans to attack NATO countries.

More than half of Ukrainians (56%) agree to territorial concessions in order to end the conflict in the presence of security guarantees from the United States and Europe, according to data from the sociological group “Rating”.