Background, from right: Russian President Vladimir Putin and Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev at the signing ceremony for Russian-Kazakh documents after a meeting of the EurAsEC Economic Council at the Moscow Kremlin, December 19, 2012. Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Vladislav Surkov, 2nd right, and Kazakh Deputy Prime Minister Kairat Kelimbetov, 2nd left, sign the intergovernmental memorandum of cooperation in setting up an emergency response system for Era-Glonass.