This case study is intended to begin a public conversation among both urban and rural people about intellectual property and cultural heritage in Kyrgyzstan, a post-Soviet nation where ties to the past have been attenuated and even severed.

"The post-Soviet nations have realised that globalisation is, in fact, taking the shape of large economic clusters," he said, going on to explain that Mr Putin's initiative is an important part of his election campaign.

The clearest prospect for mutually co-dependent beneficial cooperation was the energy sector, given Europe's growing energy demand and vast resource availability in post-Soviet nations.

Mr. Putin also announced that Mr. Nazarbayev would be taking over his role as head of the Commonwealth of Independent States, a loose alliance of post-Soviet nations.

The Western and Georgian media sources report that relations between the two post-Soviet nations have significantly deteriorated after Georgia and NATO agreed to hold talks on closer relations.

He also criticized the continuation of revolution in post-Soviet nations, as occurred in Georgia in 2003 and Ukraine this fall.

Ukraine is one of six post-Soviet nations to be invited to cooperate with the EU within the new multilateral framework that the Eastern partnership is expected to establish.

Contemporary fiction has explored the realities of the post-Soviet nations and those of post-Tiananmen China.

But the mission in Uzbekistan was an example of a post-Soviet nation that has poor relations with the United States quietly cooperating on a security issue.

The Kazakh poet Abay Qunanbayuli is often shown holding a dombra at rest and many hold it in high regard as a symbol of nationalism among the post-Soviet nations of the Commonwealth of Independent States.