February 18, 2009. President of Bolivia Evo Morales visits Moscow. Pictured: President of Bolivia Evo Morales at the meeting with President of Russia in Kremlin
 

February 16, 2009. President of Turkey Abdullah Gul visits Moscow. Pictured: President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev (second right) and his wife Svetlana Medvedeva (left) at the meeting in Kremlin with Turkish President Abdullah Gul (second left) , and Turkish president`s wife, Hayrunnisa Gul (r)
 

February 13, 2009. Crew members of the Ukrainan ship MV Faina hijacked by Somali pirates just arrived to Ukrainian capital Kyiv. MV Faina crew members meeting their relatives in the airport of Kyiv.
 

February 13, 2009. The Ukrainan ship MV Faina hijacked by Somali pirates has just docked at Mombasa port, Kenya. Crew members of the Faina ship leaves the vessel after the ship docked at Mombasa port. The MV Faina is the second high-profile ship to be released by pirates this year
 

February 12, 2009. President Dmitry Medvedev (l) visits Vologda Detention Centre for Juvenile Offenders
 

February 11, 2009. President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso at the meeting with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in Moscow
 

February 11, 2009. Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko on Tuesday, Feb, 10th,2009 called his political rival Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko a `traitor` for signing a disadvantageous gas import deal with Russia and secretly agreeing to emergency credits from the Kremlin.`This is nothing less than a betrayal of the national interest,` Yushchenko said at a televised National Security Council meeting. Yushchenko accused Tymoshenko of failing to negotiate a sufficiently low price for gas sold to Ukraine, in exchange for a back channel commitment by the Kremlin to give Kiev 5 billion dollars in emergency credits, among other alleged errors. Pictured: Viktor Yushchenko (L) Yulia Tymoshenko (R) attend National Security Council meeting.
 

February 09, 2009. Georgia`s royal wedding between Prince David Bagrationi-Mukhraneli and Princess Anna Bagrationi-Gruzinsky (both pictured centre) will unite two strands of the ancient family who once ruled Georgia. Both the Mukhraneli and the Gruzinsky branch have claimed to be the rightful heirs to the monarchy. The family of Prince David`s (the groom`s) father, Jorge de Bagration y de Mukhrani eventually settled in Spain after the second world war. Jorge de Bagration y de Mukhrani was a second cousin of Spain`s King Juan Carlos and became a famous racing driver. He returned to settle in Tbilisi in 2006 and died there last year, at only 63. His son David, although born and brought up in Spain, settled here in 2003 and evidently harbours a deep attachment to his native land. `I think that I am Bagrationi, and Georgian, and this is where I have to live. Life is full of comfort in Spain, but my homeland is Georgia,` he said in an interview with a Georgian paper.
 

February 06, 2009. President of the European Commission José Manuel Barroso at the meeting with President of Russia in Kremlin, Moscow
 

February 06, 2009. President of Bulgaria Georgi Parvanov presents his book `Bulgaria in Global World` in Moscow
 

February 06, 2009. CSTO (Collective Security Treaty Organization) Summit in Moscow. to focus on setting up joint military force. Pictured: Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev
 

February 06, 2009. President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko at Collective Security Treaty Organization Summit in Moscow
 

February 06, 2009. President of Bulgaria Georgi Parvanov (l)and President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev at Russian-Bulgarian talks in the Kremlin.
 

February 04, 2009. CSTO (Collective Security Treaty Organization)Summit in Moscow to focus on setting up joint military force. The setting up of a military force is a central point to a meeting of the CSTO Heads of State in Moscow. The newly created military force is planned to be used to repel enemy aggression and conduct operations to fight international terrorism and extremism. The CSTO comprises Russia, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Pictured: CSTO Heads of State: l-r Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan, Belorusian President Alexander Lukashenko, Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev, Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev, President Dmitry Medvedev, Tajik President Emomali Rakhmonov, Uzbek President Islam Karimov and CSTO Secretary General Nikolai Bordyuzha
 

February 04, 2009. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (l) meets President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko(r)in Moscow. Belarus is absolutely sincere in its policy towards Russia, said President of the Republic of Belarus, Chairman of the Supreme State Council of the Belarus-Russia Union State Alexander Lukashenko at his meeting with President Dmitry Medvedev in Moscow.