{"id":1025381,"date":"2026-09-10T15:04:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T12:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/?p=1025381"},"modified":"2026-09-10T15:04:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T12:04:21","slug":"documentary-exhibition-marking-the-35th-anniversary-of-the-commonwealth-of-independent-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/news\/1025381","title":{"rendered":"Documentary Exhibition Marking the 35th Anniversary of the Commonwealth of Independent States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On September 9, 2026, <strong>the 22nd meeting of the Consultative Council of Heads of State Archival Services of the Commonwealth of Independent States<\/strong> (CIS) took place at <strong>the CIS Executive Committee headquarters in Minsk<\/strong>. The event, held to mark <strong>the 35th anniversary of the CIS&#8217;s formation<\/strong>, brought together <strong>leading archivists from across the Commonwealth<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the event, <strong>the National Archives of the Republic of Belarus<\/strong> (NARB) prepared <strong>a documentary exhibition dedicated to the 35th anniversary of the Commonwealth of Independent States<\/strong>. This was a joint project involving <strong>NARB, the Belarusian State Archives of Scientific and Technical Documentation, and the Belarusian State Archives of Film, Photo, and Sound Documents<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibition brought together unique historical documents offering a fresh perspective on the key stages of the Commonwealth&#8217;s formation and the architectural history of one of the Belarusian capital&#8217;s landmark buildings. Items on display included the Statement by Heads of State and the Agreement on the Commonwealth of Independent States; declarations and protocols documenting the birth of the new international organization in December 1991; rare design materials tracing the planning and construction of the CIS Executive Committee building at 17 Kirov Street; and unique photographs capturing official meetings and visits by heads of state.<\/p>\n<p><strong>M.A.Starostenko, a department head at NARB<\/strong>, presented the exhibition to <strong>I.V.Petrishenko, First Deputy Secretary General of the CIS<\/strong>; <strong>E.I.Kovalenko, Minister of Justice of the Republic of Belarus<\/strong>; and the participants of the meeting of the Consultative Council of Heads of State Archival Services of the CIS member states.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\"  width=\"100%\" cellpadding=\"5\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"gen_table\">\n<tr align='center'>\n<td align='center'><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1-42.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" id=\"media-1087189\" class=\"wp-image-1087189 alignnone size-full\" width=\"50%\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align='center'>1. Poster for the documentary exhibition<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr align='center'>\n<td align='center'><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/2-34.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" id=\"media-1087190\" class=\"wp-image-1087190 alignnone size-medium\" width=\"50%\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align='center'>2. Documentary exhibition dedicated to the 35th anniversary of the formation of the Commonwealth of Independent States<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr align='center'>\n<td align='center'><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/3-24.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" id=\"media-1087191\" class=\"wp-image-1087191 alignnone size-medium\" width=\"70%\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align='center'>3. M.A.Starostenko, Head of Department at NARB, introduces the exhibition to I.V.Petrishenko, First Deputy Secretary General of the CIS, and E.I.Kovalenko, Minister of Justice of the Republic of Belarus<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr align='center'>\n<td align='center'><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/4-15.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" id=\"media-1087192\" class=\"wp-image-1087192 alignnone size-medium\" width=\"50%\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align='center'>4. Archival documents on display at the exhibition<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On September 9, 2026, the 22nd meeting of the Consultative Council of Heads of State Archival Services of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) took place at the CIS Executive&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1025381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025381"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1025381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1025383,"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025381\/revisions\/1025383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1025381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1025381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1025381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}