March 16, 2010. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, center, foreground, and his Belarusian counterpart Sergei Sidorsky, left, visited the Brest Fortress memorial complex to lay flowers at the Eternal Flame memorial.

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March 16, 2010. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (right) visited the Brest Hero-Fortress memorial complex during his visit to Belarus and laid flowers to the Eternal Flame together with Belarusian Prime Minister Sergei Sidorsky (second right.

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March 16, 2010. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, right, and his Belarusian counterpart Sergei Sidorsky, center, visited the Brest Fortress memorial complex to lay flowers at the Eternal Flame memorial.

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March 16, 2010. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (left, background) visited the Brest Hero-Fortress memorial complex during his visit to Belarus and laid flowers to the Eternal Flame together with Belarusian Prime Minister Sergei Sidorsky.

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March 16, 2010. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (second right, foreground) visited the Brest Hero-Fortress memorial complex during his visit to Belarus and laid flowers to the Eternal Flame together with Belarusian Prime Minister Sergei Sidorsky (second left, foreground).

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March 16, 2010. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, second right, foreground, and his Belarusian counterpart Sergei Sidorsky, second left, foreground, visited the Brest Fortress memorial complex to lay flowers at the Eternal Flame memorial.

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March 16, 2010. From right, background: Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and Belarusian Prime Minsiter Sergei Sidorsky during the press conference after the negotiations between Russia and Belarus in Brest.

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March 16, 2010. From right, background: Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and Belarusian Prime Minsiter Sergei Sidorsky during the press conference after the negotiations between Russia and Belarus in Brest.

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March 16, 2010. From right: Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and Belarusian Prime Minister Sergei Sidorsky during the press conference after the negotiations between Russia and Belarus in Brest.

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March 16, 2010. From right: Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and Belarusian Prime Minister Sergei Sidorsky during the press conference after the negotiations between Russia and Belarus in Brest.

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March 16, 2010. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin during the press conference after the negotiations between Russia and Belarus in Brest.

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March 16, 2010. From left: Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and Pavel Borodin, head of the Permanent Committee and state secretary of the Union State, in Brest, Belarus, at the meeting of the Council of Ministers of the Union State of Russia and Belarus.

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March 16, 2010. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in Brest, Belarus, at the meeting of the Council of Ministers of the Union State of Russia and Belarus.

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Belarusian Prime Minister Sergei Sidorsky in Brest, Belarus, at the meeting of the Council of Ministers of the Union State of Russia and Belarus.

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March 16, 2010. From right, center background: Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and Belarusian Prime Minister Sergei Sidorsky in Brest, Belarus, at the meeting of the Council of Ministers of the Union State of Russia and Belarus.

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March 16, 2010. From right: Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and Belarusian Prime Minister Sergei Sidorsky in Brest, Belarus, at the meeting of the Council of Ministers of the Union State of Russia and Belarus.

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March 16, 2010. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, right, and Belarusian Prime Minister Sergei Sidorsky, fourth right, during the negotiations between Russia and Belarus in Brest.

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March 16, 2010. From left: Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin during the negotiations between Russia and Belarus in Brest.

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Belarusian Prime Minister Serge Sidorsky, second right, during the negotiations between Russia and Belarus in Brest.

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Belarusian Prime Minister Serge Sidorsky, right, during the negotiations between Russia and Belarus in Brest.

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March 16, 2010. From left, background: Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin during the negotiations between Russia and Belarus in Brest.

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March 16, 2010. From right: Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and Belarusian Prime Minister Sergei Sidorsky during the negotiations between Russia and Belarus in Brest.

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From left: Andrei Belyaninov, head of the Federal Customs Service of Russia, and Pavel Borodin, State Secretary of the Union State, during Russian-Belarusian talks in Brest.

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March 16, 2010. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (center, background) visiting the customs center for inspecting commercial vehicles "Kozlovichi-2" in Brest. Right, background: Belarusian Prime Minister Sergei Sidorsky.

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March 16, 2010. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (center, foreground) visiting the customs center for inspecting commercial vehicles "Kozlovichi-2" in Brest. Left, background - Belarusian Prime Minister Sergei Sidorsky.

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March 16, 2010. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (center, background) visiting the customs center for inspecting commercial vehicles "Kozlovichi-2" in Brest.

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March 16, 2010. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (right, foreground) visiting the customs center for inspecting commercial vehicles "Kozlovichi-2" in Brest. Right, background: Belarusian Prime Minister Sergei Sidorsky.

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March 16, 2010. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (right, foreground) visiting the customs center for inspecting commercial vehicles "Kozlovichi-2" in Brest. Right, background: Belarusian Prime Minister Sergei Sidorsky.

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March 16, 2010. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (right, background) visiting the customs center for inspecting commercial vehicles "Kozlovichi-2" in Brest. Right, foreground: Belarusian Prime Minister Sergei Sidorsky.

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March 16, 2010. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (left, background) visiting the customs center for inspecting commercial vehicles "Kozlovichi-2" in Brest. Right, background: Belarusian Prime Minister Sergei Sidorsky.

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March 16, 2010. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (center, foreground) visiting the customs center for inspecting commercial vehicles "Kozlovichi-2" in Brest. Right, foreground: Belarusian Prime Minister Sergei Sidorsky.

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March 16, 2010. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (center, foreground) visiting the customs center for inspecting commercial vehicles "Kozlovichi-2" in Brest. Right, foreground: Belarusian Prime Minister Sergei Sidorsky.

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March 16, 2010. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (center, foreground) visiting the customs center for inspecting commercial vehicles "Kozlovichi-2" in Brest. Left, foreground: Belarusian Prime Minister Sergei Sidorsky.

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March 16, 2010. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, right, visiting the customs center for inspecting commercial vehicles "Kozlovichi-2" in Brest.

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March 16, 2010. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, right, visiting the customs center for inspecting commercial vehicles "Kozlovichi-2" in Brest.

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March 16, 2010. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (left, foreground) visiting the customs center for inspecting commercial vehicles "Kozlovichi-2" in Brest.

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March 16, 2010. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, left, visiting the customs center for inspecting commercial vehicles "Kozlovichi-2" in Brest.

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