** Editor's note : this image is distributed by the Russian state owned agency Sputnik **
In this pool photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, Russia's President Vladimir Putin greets Kazakhstan's President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev during an informal summit of the heads of state of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) at Igora ski resort in the Leningrad region on December 25, 2024. (Photo by Alexandr Demyanchuk / POOL / AFP)