| The CIS group of former Soviet republics meeting in Moscow on Sunday is committed to a democratic path, Kyrgyzstan's post-revolutionary leader, interim President Kurmanbek Bakiyev, insisted. "Today the members of the CIS are moving along this path of development... there is no other way for the CIS when the whole of the civilised world is developing on democratic lines," Bakiyev said ahead of the summit of the 12-nation Commonwealth of Independent States. Russia's President Vladimir Putin, who chairs Saturday's meeting of the increasingly fractious block, "is doing a lot to ensure that democratic principles, above all in the Russian Federation, develop &0151; everything the leadership of the Russian Federation has done up to now demonstrates this," Bakiyev told journalists. |