Working trip of Russian President Vladimir Putin to Astana. VI summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia in the Palace of Independence. Russian President Vladimir Putin (left) and Pakistani Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif (right) before the plenary session of the summit.

Working trip of Russian President Vladimir Putin to Astana. VI summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia in the Palace of Independence. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (right) and correspondent Konstantin Panyushkin (left) during the summit.

Working trip of Russian President Vladimir Putin to Astana. VI summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia in the Palace of Independence. Russian President Vladimir Putin (left) and Pakistani Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif (right) before the plenary session of the summit.

Working trip of Russian President Vladimir Putin to Astana. VI summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia in the Palace of Independence. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (left) during the summit.

Working trip of Russian President Vladimir Putin to Astana. VI summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia in the Palace of Independence. Bahraini Foreign Minister Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani (center) before the plenary session of the summit.

Working trip of Russian President Vladimir Putin to Astana. VI summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia in the Palace of Independence. Left to right: Vietnamese Vice President Vo Thi Anh Xuan, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev before the plenary session of the summit.

Working trip of Russian President Vladimir Putin to Astana. VI summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia in the Palace of Independence. Denis Agafonov (left), Deputy Head of the Russian President's Office for Foreign Policy, and Yury Ushakov, Russian Presidential Aide (right), during the summit.

Working trip of Russian President Vladimir Putin to Astana. VI summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia in the Palace of Independence. President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko during the plenary session of the summit.

VI summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia in the Palace of Independence. Genre photography.

Views of Astana. Genre photography. The building of the Kazakh National University of Arts.

Working trip of Russian President Vladimir Putin to Astana. VI summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia in the Palace of Independence. Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of Russia, Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov during the summit.

VI summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia in the Palace of Independence. Genre photography.

Working trip of Russian President Vladimir Putin to Astana. VI summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia in the Palace of Independence. Russian President Vladimir Putin (left) and Pakistani Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif (right) before the plenary session of the summit.