And until the Slavic leaders met near Brest last weekend, the political process seemed deadlocked and the economic situation near catastrophe.

Against this background, the decision of the three Slavic leaders to unilaterally declare a new course had a crude logic.

Samo became a Slavic leader by successfully helping the Slavs defend themselves against the Avar assailants.

The participation of the Central Asian states remains a major issue, one that the three Slavic leaders may have made worse by not consulting with their Muslim counterparts.

However, local Slavic leaders in late Medieval Pomerania and Silesia continued inviting German settlers to their territories.

And reports from around Moscow indicated that the Commonwealth proposed by the three Slavic leaders was rapidly gaining adherents.

Local Slavic leaders were also recognized as nobles during the centuries.

The three Slavic leaders declared that the old Soviet Union was dissolved on Sunday and that all the old laws and institutions were void.

The region returned to the control of Slavic leaders.

The three Slavic leaders have proposed a commonwealth that would retain a single currency and economic space, and a single strategic-military command.