In November 2020 the Council of Heads of Government of the Commonwealth of Independent States met to approve an action plan to implement the first phase of the Commonwealth's economic development strategy until 2030. The document covers the period from 2021 to 2025 and contains 29 sections, including on trade and economic cooperation, industry, the fuel and energy complex, transport, communications and information technology, the agro-industrial complex, monetary and financial policy and the labor market. The measures contained in the adopted plan and aimed at strengthening and enhancing the competitiveness of the CIS economies, the development of new cooperation and infrastructure projects, the development of the digital economy, the realization of scientific and technological and educational potential should help to make effective use of the integration mechanisms of this international organization. How these tasks are solved in practice is described in the proposed study.