15 years of the Commonwealth of Independent States
(1991-2005)

          The abstract is dedicated to the 15-th anniversary of creation of the Commonwealth of Independent States and presents official comparable statistical materials characterizing socio-economic situation of the states-participants of the Commonwealth by main indicators of macroeconomics, branch economy, external trade, social sphere for 1991-2005. International comparisons are given for some indicators.
           Brief methodological explanatory notes are given for the main indicators.
          All the text of the abstract is published in Russian and English and is intended for interstate and intergovernmental bodies of the Commonwealth, businessmen, economists, statisticians and mass media.