Commonwealth of Independent States

What leaderships of three CIS member states were overthrown in a series of colour revolutions ?Commonwealth - содружество, федерация.Independent - независимый, самостоятельный; независящий (от чего-л./кого-л. - of).Turkmenistan discontinued permanent membership as of August 26, 2005 and is now an associate member.The CIS is headquartered in Minsk, Belarus.The chairman of the CIS is known as the executive secretary.All of the CIS's executive secretaries have been from Belarus or Russia.The current executive secretary is former Russian interior minister, Vladimir Rushailo.The official slogan of these revolutions was the democratization of the society.And now we can see that Ukraine, Georgia and Kyrgyzstan are quietly drifting away from the CIS.