form themselves into a free, sovereign, and independent body politic, or state." This framing of the state as a commonwealth derives from the language of 17th-century thinkers like Thomas Hobbes ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin is scheduled to attend. It will be his first trip abroad since the ICC issue an arrest warrant in March 2023. Russia's efforts to establish "regional air defense ...

Since the breakup of the Soviet Union, the story of the oil, gas, and electricity sectors in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)—the economic alliance of 12 of the former Soviet republics ...