Signatories of the agreement enlarging the CIS (Alma-Ata, 21 December 1991)
Image On 21 December 1991, in Alma-Ata (now Almaty), Kazakhstan, the Russian President, Boris Yeltsin, welcomes the signing of the agreement enlarging the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). From left to right: Leonid Kravchuk, President of Ukraine, Nursultan Nazarbayev, President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, and Stanislau Shushkevich, President of the Republic of Belarus.
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Source: Russian President Boris Yeltsin flashes the "Thumbs-up" sign after signing the agreement which founded a Commonwealth of Independant States. ARMAND, Vitaly. Alma-Ata: Agence France Presse, 21/12/1991. Couleur.
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