Leonid Kuchma

COMM Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma looks at exhibition at the Pavlovsky Palace outside St. Petersburg, Russia, Monday, June 10, 2002. Leonid Kuchma, his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder visited Pavlovsk for a working meeting to sign an agreement of intent to cooperate on modernizing a gas pipeline to bring Russian supplies through Ukraine to Europe, the latest of Moscow's moves to counter U.S.-backed moves to create new pipelines that avoid Russia. Photo by Valery Soloviov / UNIAN