PRESIDENTS OF EURASIAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY MEET IN ST PETERSBURG
Members of the Eurasian Economic Community, Presidents Vladimir Putin of Russia (L), Nursultan Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan, (2nd L), Islam Karimov of Uzbekistan, Nursultan Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan, Imomali Rakhmonov of Tajikistan, Kurmanbek Bakiyev of Kyrgyzstan and Alexander Lukashenko of Belorussia (R) walk to the Konstantin Palace outside St. Petersburg, January 25, 2006. Heads of these 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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