These are two organizations that share part of the territory they conform. For instance, Russia is a common country between both organizations. The goal that persecutes this comparison is to understand more widely, the situation of the CIS through analyzing similarities and differences between each of them.
Firstly, the governance structure is pretty alike. The decision making in both organizations are based on consensus of the heads of state of each one; both of them have councils that are in charge of international relations or negotiations between countries (for the case of the CIS is the council of ministers of foreign affairs and for the EurAsEC is the deputy prime ministers). Both institutions include in its composition industrial councils, an interparliamentary assembly and a supreme court.
The principal difference is in the aspect of decision making: CIS based it ona strict consensus, allowing individual members to obey or not each decision taken. While, EurAsEC base decision making on the Integration Committee, Customs Union Committee and the Inter Parliamentary Assembly, where the votes of certain parts weight more than others and to opt out to not obeying to the decisions is not accepted. Also, in the economic suborganisms inside each of the CIS and EurAsEC, the last one enjoys of a significantly smaller administrative part that allows them to focus on specific issues and is more homogenous, instead of the CIS, which main economic suborganism is composed by too many industrial councils that are importantly heterogenous between them, which slows down the decision making on economic themes. As can be inferred, the EurAsEC achieved “more” than the CIS in regards of cooperation and economic integration.
In the case of both organizations, most of the countries that compose them, are either semi democratic or non-democratic systems. In the case of Russia, opposition power of opinion is practically minimum and is an autocratic government where government periods can be almost undefined where loyal successors can be installed. Exceptionally, there are more democratic countries like Ukraine that has demonstrated by elections of 2010 its capability to exist democratically and Moldova, that was formed in a parliamentary democracy with peaceful transition government transitions. Although, these two countries are very reluctant to participate in this kind of organizations due to the difference and the knowledge they have on the type of governments that rule the CIS and the EurAsEC respectivelly.
COMMONWEALTH OF INDEPENDENT STATES 