Tajikistan's President Emomali Rakhmon (C), Russian President Vladimir Putin (2ndR), Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan (R), Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov (back), Kazakhstan's President-elect Kassym-Jomart Tokayev (L) and Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko (2ndL) attend the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) Leaders meeting in Yerevan on November 23, 2022. (Photo by KAREN MINASYAN / AFP)