For Star Trek: The Next Generation, an ultraviolet light matting process was proposed by Don Lee of CIS and developed by Gary Hutzel and the staff of Image G. This involved a fluorescent orange backdrop which made it easier to generate a holdout matte, thus allowing the effects team to produce effects in a quarter of the time needed for other methods.

The University planned a new 3, 500 seat stadium for its varsity football team for the 2012 CIS football season.

The school's team name in Canadian Interuniversity Sport ( CIS ) is the Mount Allison Mounties.

The Regina Rams are the CIS football team that represents the University of Regina in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.

He first took the reins of the team in 1984, making 2011 his 28th season as head coach of the Rams and his 13th in the CIS.

In 2007, after leading his team to a 6-2 regular season record and an appearance in the Hardy Cup game, McCrystal was named the 2007 Canada West and CIS coach of the year.

However, unlike many varsity sports the baseball team does not compete in the CIS.

The X-Men Basketball program has won 3 CIS Championships ( 1993, 2000, and 2001 ) and in 2004, the X-Men Hockey team won their first CIS Championship.

In 2011, the X-Women Hockey team placed 2nd at the CIS Championships in Ottawa.

In 2006, the X-Women Rugby team became the first female St. Francis Xavier varsity team to win a CIS Championship, as 10-time defending AUS Rugby Champions.

In 2008, the team placed 2nd at the CIS Championships in Lethbridge, Alberta after capturing their 12th consecutive AUS Championship.

In 2010 Rubin won the CIS Cup, becoming the first Russian team since 2005 to win that title.

FIFA considers the CIS national football team ( and ultimately, the Russia national football team ) as its successor team allocating its former records to them ; nevertheless, a large percentage of the team's former players came from outside the Russian SFSR, mainly from the Ukrainian SSR, and following the breakup of the Soviet Union, some such as Andrei Kanchelskis from the former Ukrainian SSR continued to serve in the new Russia national football team.

The Soviet Union qualified for Euro 1992, but the breakup of the Soviet Union meant that the finals place was instead taken by the CIS national football team.

Mostovoi played for the Soviet national team, the CIS and Russia internationally.

The university basketball team RTI-Minsk has successfully participated in USSR and CIS championships for 30 years.

The men's hockey team has won 15 championships, 11 of those are at the Atlantic University Sport level, and 4 are at the national CIS level.

The women's team have never won the Atlantic Conference Championship or the CIS Women's Ice Hockey Championship.

Formed in 2005-2006, the Bobcats men ’ s volleyball team has risen from humble beginnings to a perennial nationally ranked team in the CIS.

Dacia Chişinău represented Moldova in the 18th CIS Cup that season.

Women's ice hockey has been played in the CIS since the 1997-98 season, following a long stint of teams only competing in the OUA.

The WZO today consists of the following institutions: The World Zionist Unions, international Zionist Federations ; and international organizations that define themselves as Zionist, such as WIZO, Hadassah, Bnai-Brith, Maccabi, the International Sephardic Federation, the three streams of world Judaism ( Orthodox, Conservative, Reform ), delegation from the CIS – Commonwealth of Independent States ( former Soviet Union ), the World Union of Jewish Students ( WUJS ), and more.

The following are the most prominent ones: ( 1 ) Center for Opinion Studies ( Centre d ' Estudis d ' Opinió CEO ), ( 2 ) Social Research Centre ( Centro de Investigaciones Sociales CIS ) which belongs to the Spanish government and ( 3 ) Social and Political Sciencies Institute of Barcelona ( Institut de Ciències Polítiques i Socials ICPS ) belonging to the Autonomous University of Barcelona and Diputation of Barcelona.

In recent years the men's volleyball side won the CIS championships for the 2006-07 season, defeating the University of Alberta 3 sets to 2, the following year in a rematch of the same final the Wesmen lost 3 sets to 1 finishing runner-up to Alberta this time.

The following are the most important specialist degrees in the CIS:

Armenia is interested in cooperating with other members of the Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS, a group of 12 former Soviet republics ) and with members of the international community on environmental issues.

After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, at which time Belarus gained its independence, Belarus became a member of the Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ), the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe ( OSCE ), NATO's Partnership for Peace, the North Atlantic Cooperation Council, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank.

The Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ) is a loose alliance or confederation consisting of 10 of the 15 former Soviet Republics, the exceptions being Turkmenistan ( a CIS associate member ), Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Georgia.

Thus, the capital of Kazakhstan lent its name to the Alma-Ata Declaration, in which eleven of the fifteen Soviet republics announced the expansion of the thirteen-day-old CIS.

In the mid-1990s, Russia remained the most important sponsor of Kazakhstan in economic and national security matters, but in such matters Nazarbayev also backed the strengthening of the multinational structures of the Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ), the loose confederation that succeeded the Soviet Union.

The CIS states also agreed that Russia initially would take over Soviet embassies and other properties abroad.

State-run Tajik Air Somon Air, and many CIS airlines operate flights to destinations in the former Soviet Union.

** Leaders of Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine meet and sign an agreement ending the Soviet Union and establishing the Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ), in the Białowieża Forest Nature Reserve in Belarus.

CIS usually refers to the Commonwealth of Independent States, a modern political entity consisting of eleven former Soviet Union republics.

Ice dance was introduced into the Winter Olympics starting with the 1976 edition, and all but two gold medals had been won by Soviet / CIS / Russian pairs.

In 2006, the Federation of Jewish Communities of the CIS and Baltic Countries organized over 500 public Seders throughout the Former Soviet Union, led by local rabbis and Chabad rabbinical students, drawing more than 150, 000 attendees in total.

* List of military aircraft of the Soviet Union and the CIS

On December 8, Belarus joined Russia and Ukraine in signing the Minsk Agreement to form the Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ), which formally put an end to the Soviet Union.

* Family name ( surname ) in the Russian Empire, Soviet Union and CIS countries

* List of military aircraft of the Soviet Union and the CIS

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Russian gauge or CIS gauge is the second most widely used gauge in the world, and spans the whole of the former Soviet Union / CIS bloc including the Baltic states and Mongolia.

* List of military aircraft of the Soviet Union and the CIS

See also: List of military aircraft of the Soviet Union and the CIS

Soviet Union qualified for the finals shortly before the break-up of the country, and took part in the tournament under the banner of the Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ) before the former Soviet republics formed their own national teams after the competition.

* List of military aircraft of the Soviet Union and the CIS