INTEGRATION PROCESSES IN THE POST-SOVIET AREA
The article provides a brief review of some features of the socio-economic development of the post-Soviet States. It is a large geographically integrated array consisting of fifteen countries of the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. At the same time, the post-Soviet area is characterized by significant internal heterogeneity and political views. As a result, States do not adhere to a common foreign economic policy and are involved in various ways in world economic relations, including in the process of international economic integration. Twelve (and after 2009 - eleven) republics of the former USSR are developing integration mechanisms within the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)based created in 1991. The Baltic States operate under a separate agreement - the Baltic Assembly. Today, Georgia is not a member of any international organizations similar to them. The existing forms of integration associations of the CIS member States, such as the CIS free trade zone, the Organization for democracy and economic development, and the Eurasian economic Union, are considered. The degree of participation of the CIS countries in the process of economic integration, which is developing in the post-Soviet space, is also indicated.