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The article investigates the patterns of Russian banks' export of direct investments. The authors provide estimations of the Russian banks' expansion outside the CIS countries based on statistical data and expert calculations. We also map the geographical presence of Russian banks and analyze their entry modes on foreign markets. Our findings suggest that Russian banks' subsidiaries outside the CIS countries act as financial intermediates between Russian and foreign markets, their role as intermediates on local financial markets is still poor.

History and prospects; view that the CIS has failed to promote integration of Russia and former Soviet republics. Included in a collection of articles under the overall title "Regionalism revisited". Russian intervention and peacekeeping, blocs, and geopolitical pluralism.

16Treaties — Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, 1969 — International agreements — Commonwealth of Independent States' decisions — Classification — Interpretation — Applicable law — Reservations — Admissibility — Whether reservations compatible with object and purpose of agreement — Regulation of reservations

The article considers the distinctive characteristics of the Commonwealth of Independent States as a regional economic union of states on the post-Soviet space. It emphasizes major conceptual approaches to determining strategy and basic tendencies of the CIS development, perfection of organizational and legal mechanisms of member states interaction. The article examines the prospects of the CIS transformation into an efficiently functioning economic union of states.

Prospects for continued unity when each republic's first priority is to strive for full independence and sovereignty.