Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko speaks at a meeting of the leaders of the member states of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, May 8, 2014. (AP Photo/Sergei Karpukhin, Pool)
President of the Russian Republic Boris Yeltsin delivers a damning indictment of Mikhail Gorbachev in Moscow, Friday, March 29, 1991 at the second day of the extraordinary session of Russian federation congress at the Kremlin on Friday. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)