Russian President Vladimir Putin, center, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, third left, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, second left, Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, right, and Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov, second right, attend a meeting of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council of the Eurasian Economic Union at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, on Wednesday, May 8, 2024. Russian President Vladimir Putin hailed the economic alliance's performance, saying that it helped boost the members' economic potential. (Evgenia Novozhenina/Pool Photo via AP)