May 28, 2009. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin, Minister of Agriculture Yelena Skrynnik, Deputy Head of the Government Staff Yury Ushakov, and Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin, in the background, from left to right) and Prime Minister of the Republic of Belarus Sergei Sidorsky, second right in the background, during bilateral talks in the Belorussian president's Frunze residence.