The commonwealth should become a public relations space. This is what Shamsidin Karimov, chief researcher in the US and Canada Department at the Institute for the Study of Asian and European Countries of the National Academy of Sciences, said during a special conference in Dushanbe. The expert believes that the Commonwealth of Nations needs a new social foundation that will provide its citizens with a platform for education, professional mobility, cultural exchange, scientific cooperation and solving practical problems. "The value of the Commonwealth of Nations lies precisely in its flexibility," Karimov emphasized.