MINSK. March 20 (Interfax) - The chairman of the CIS Executive Committee, Sergei Lebedev, believes that Kyiv's possible decision to pull out of the CIS will negatively impact Ukraine itself.
"I think that [Ukraine's] possible withdrawal [from the CIS] will deliver a powerful blow to the country itself, the people of Ukraine and its economy," Lebedev told reporters in Minsk on Thursday.