In this pool photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik Armenia's Deputy Prime Minister Mher Grigoryan, Belarus' President Alexander Lukashenko, Kazakhstan's President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, Kyrgyzstan's President Sadyr Japarov, Russia' President of Vladimir Putin, and Chairman of the Board of the Eurasian Economic Commission Bakytzhan Sagintayev pose during a photo ceremony of the heads of delegations of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) member states before the start of the narrow-format meeting of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council at the Palace of Independence in Astana on May 29, 2026. The Russian president is on a state visit to Kazakhstan. (Photo by Alexander KAZAKOV / POOL / AFP via Getty Images)