Russian President Vladimir Putin (center) and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev (third left) as well as Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko (third right) attending the Supreme State Council session of the Russia-Belarus Union State at the Grand Kremlin Palace, March 3, 2015. From left: State Duma Speaker Sergei Naryshkin and Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matviyenko. From right: Mikhail Myasnikovich, Chairman of the Belarusian Republican Council, and Andrei Kobyakov, Belarusian Prime Minister.