Interior Minister Vladimir Rushailo (left) and Defense Minister Igor Sergeyev.
Line of limusines with flags of the former Soviet republics awaits Presidents of the CIS in Kremlin during the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) summit.
Line of limusines with flags of the former Soviet republics awaits Presidents of the CIS in Kremlin during the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) summit.
Leaders of the member nations of the Commomwealth of Independent States, Presidents, left to right, Leonid Kuchma of Ukraine, Petru Lucinschi of Moldova, Nursultan Nazarbayev of Kazakstan, Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus, Geidar Aliev of Azerbaijan, Russian Acting President Vladimir Putin, Presidents Robert Kocharian of Armenia, Eduard Shevardnadze of Georgia, Askar Akayev of Kyrgyzstan, Emomali Rakhmonov of Tajikistan at a news conference.
Leaders of the member nations of the Commomwealth of Independent States, Presidents, left to right, Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus, third left, Eduard Shevardnadze of Georgia, Leonid Kuchma of Ukraine, Petru Lucinschi of Moldova, Russian Acting President Vladimir Putin, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia Igor Ivanov, President of Azerbaijan Geidar Aliev and President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov takes seats at a news conference in the Kremlin in Moscow during the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) summit.
Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze speaks during a meeting of journalists with presidents of CIS-members at the Alexandrovsky Hall of the Kremlin Palace.
Russian State Emblem, two-headed eagle in the Great Kremlin Palace.
CIS leaders - (left to right) Georgia's President Eduard Shevardnadze, Russia's Acting President Vladimir Putin, Azerbaijan's President Geydar Aliyev, Belorussia's President Alexander Lukashenko, and Kyrgyzstan's President Askar Akayev (second from the right) - meet journalists in the Alexander Hall of the Geat Kremlin Palace.
Uzbekiston President Islam Karimov is interviewed at the joint press-briefing of the CIS-countries leaders held in the Alexander Hall of the Great Kremlin Palace.
Meeting of the press with the presidents of the CIS countries was held in the Alexander Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace. Officer of the presidential administration of Russia openig the doors.