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PRESIDENTS OF EURASIAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY MEET IN ST PETERSBURG

Uzbekistan President Islam Karimov takes a seat at the beginning of the Eurasian Economic Community summit at the Konstantin Palace outside St. Petersburg, January 25, 2006. Heads of several ex-Soviet countries hold a summit that aims to restore economic ties lost after the 1991 Soviet collapse, (UPI Photo/Anatoli Zhdanov)

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