 The membership of the USSR in the Brussels Convention was equally continued by the Russian Federation as from December 25, 1991.On June 25, 1993, Russia and Armenia signed a treaty on the mutual protection of copyrights.To clarify the copyright situation amongst the states that had made up the former Soviet Union, the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) nations agreed on a cooperation agreement in the field of copyrights on September 24, 1993.