From left: CIS heads of state at a CIS summit in Chisinau: Geydar Aliyev (Azerbaijan), Robert Kocharyan (Armenia), Alexander Lukashenko (Belarus), Eduard Shevardnadze (Georgia), Nursultan Nazarbayev (Kazakhstan), Askar Akayev (Kirghizstan), Vladimir Voronin (Moldova), Vladimir Putin (Russia), Emomali Rakhmonov (Tajikistan), Islam Karimov (Uzbekistan), and Leonid Kuchma (Ukraine).