Please answer the following question: Information: - The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR " ) was a socialist state in Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991. A union of multiple subnational republics, its government and economy were highly centralized. The Soviet Union was a one-party federation, governed by the Communist Party with Moscow as its capital. - The Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ; Russian : , , tr. Sodruzhestvo Nezavisimykh Gosudarstv , SNG ; also called the Russian Commonwealth ) is a regional organisation formed during the breakup of the Soviet Union , whose participating countries are some former Soviet Republics . The CIS is a loose association of states . Although the CIS has few supranational powers , it is aimed at being more than a purely symbolic organisation , nominally possessing coordinating powers in the realm of trade , finance , lawmaking , and security . It has also promoted cooperation on cross-border crime prevention . Furthermore , eight of the nine CIS member states participate in the CIS Free Trade Area , and five of these form the Eurasian Economic Union , a customs union and single market of over 180 million people . In addition , six member states participate in a mutual defence alliance : the Collective Security Treaty Organization . - Eurasia is the combined continental landmass of Europe and Asia. The term is a portmanteau of its constituent continents. Located primarily in the Northern and Eastern Hemispheres, it is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west, the Pacific Ocean to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and by Africa, the Mediterranean Sea, and the Indian Ocean to the south. The division between Europe and Asia as two different continents is a historical and cultural construct, with no clear physical separation between them; thus, in some parts of the world, Eurasia is recognized as the largest of five or six continents. In geology, Eurasia is often considered as a single rigid megablock. However, the rigidity of Eurasia is debated based on the paleomagnet data. - A member state is a state that is a member of an international organization or of a federation or confederation. - Moscow (or ) is the capital and most populous city of Russia, with 12.2 million residents within the city limits and 16.8 million within the urban area. Moscow has the status of a Russian federal city. After reading the paragraphs above, we are interested in knowing the entity with which 'commonwealth of independent states' exhibits the relationship of 'instance of'. Find the answer from the choices below. Choices: - area - capital - city - communist party - division - federation - five - government - international organization - landmass - mediterranean sea - ocean - party - soviet - state - status - term - two - union
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international organization