Yuliya Timoshenko and Vladimir Putin

Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko and Prime Minister of Russia Vladimir Putin, second to the left, before the start of the session of the Council of Heads of Governments of states – participants of Commonwealth of Independent States, in Astana (Kazakhstan), on Friday, May 22, 2009. The regular session of the Council of Heads of Governments of the states – participants of Commonwealth of Independent States will take place in November in Crimea (Ukraine). This decision was made today in Astana at the session of Council of Heads of Governments of the states – participants of the CIS by initiative of the Prime Minister of Ukraine. During the session the heads of the governments discussed programs and ways of overcoming the world financial crisis. Photo by Aleksandr Prokopenko/POOL/UNIAN