MOSCOW, RUSSIA. JANUARY 25. (From L-R): Tajik President Emomali Rakhmonov, Uzbek President Islam Karimov, Azerbaijan President Geidar Aliev, Armenian President Robert Kocharyan, Moldovan President Petru Lucinschi, Kirgiz President Askar Akayev, Russia's Acting President Vladimir Putin, Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma, Georgian President Eduard Shevarnadze, Turkmen President Saparmurat Niyazov, Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev and Byelorussian President Alexander Lukashenko seen posing for the picture prior to the meeting of the Council of the CIS heads of state in a narrow format, in the Kremlin on Tuesday. Photo by Alexander Sentsov, Alexander Chumichev (ITAR-TASS).