October 08, 2008. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert (l) at the meeting with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in Kremlin.
 

October 07, 2008. Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Chairman-in-Office and Finnish Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb visits Belarus capital Minsk
 

October 07, 2008. Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko (l) visits Britain while discrepancies between President Yushchenko and Prime-minister Julia Timoshenko lead to deepest ever political crisis in Ukraine. President Viktor Yushchenko at the meeting with British Prime-minister Gordon Brown in London
 

October 03, 2008. ST.PETERSBURG, RUSSIA . President Dmitry Medvedev (r) hosts German Chancellor Angela Merkel in St.Petersburg to try to resume `business as usual` with Russia`s leading European partner after the August war in Georgia. Germany is Russia`s biggest single trading partner with bilateral turnover expected to reach $60 billion this year. But ties were badly shaken in August when Russia sent troops into Georgia drawing unanimous condemnation from the West. At the meeting `The sides are planning to discuss a political support to the plan of building on time the trans-border gas transit system `North Stream`, aimed at strengthening the guarantees of Europe`s long-term energy supplies,` the Kremlin source said.
 

October 03, 2008. ST.PETERSBURG, RUSSIA . President Dmitry Medvedev (l) hosts German Chancellor Angela Merkel in St.Petersburg to try to resume `business as usual` with Russia`s leading European partner after the August war in Georgia. Germany is Russia`s biggest single trading partner with bilateral turnover expected to reach $60 billion this year. But ties were badly shaken in August when Russia sent troops into Georgia drawing unanimous condemnation from the West. At the meeting `The sides are planning to discuss a political support to the plan of building on time the trans-border gas transit system `North Stream`, aimed at strengthening the guarantees of Europe`s long-term energy supplies,` the Kremlin source said.
 

October 03, 2008. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev at the meeting with Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero (not pictured)
 

October 02, 2008. Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero (l) and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev had talks at Konstantin Palace of Strelnya in St.Petersburg. October 1, 2008.
 

September 30, 2008. King of Sweden Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Sylvia pay their first visit to Ukraine. Pictured: Ukrainian President Victor Yushchenko and his wife Ekaterina (l)welcome Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Sylvia (r) in Kiev, Ukraine
 

September 30, 2008. President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev (r) meets South Korean President Lee Myung-bak at the Kremlin.
 

September 29, 2008. Russia -Venezuela talks in Orenburg. Pictured: Venezuelan and Russian presidents Hugo Chavez (l)and Dmitry Medvedev at the singing ceremony of joint documents on cooperation between two countries.
 

September 29, 2008. Parliamentary elections in Belarus. Belarus army soldiers voting at the polling station in Minsk
 

September 25, 2008. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev visiting Chukotka. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, center, visiting a reindeer-breeding farm in Kanchalan.
 

September 24, 2008. Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko visits New York. Pictured: Viktor Yushchenko at the press conference .
 

September 19, 2008. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (C) signes agreement with his South Ossetian counterpart Eduard Kokoity (R) and Abkhazian President Sergei Bagapsh at the Kremlin in Moscow on September 17, 2008. Medvedev on Wednesday signed agreements with Abkhazia and South Ossetia, setting the diplomatic framework for Russia`s relations with the two Georgian rebel regions.
 

September 19, 2008. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev at Government Meeting on Russia`s Economy in Kremlin