Kazakhstan Pres. Nazarbayev with Ukrainian Pres. Kravchuk and Russian Pres. Yeltsin at CIS ceremony in Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan

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Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev (center) gestures to Russian President Boris Yeltsin (right) as they leave a ceremony with Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk in Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan. The three Presidents along with eight other leaders of former Soviet Republics signed the Alma-Ata Protocol formally creating the Commonwealth of Independent States in December of 1991. Photo by Chuck Nacke

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Location: Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan
Photo credit: © Chuck Nacke / Alamy / Afripics
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