CIS summit in Minsk

October 25 is another day-off for the fridge-making plant workers, but they will have to work it off on Saturday, November 16.

"Alyaksandr Ryhoravich has everything under control in the torture-chamber behind the wall," the Russian president joked.

On October 24-25, Minsk will host the sessions of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council and the Council of Heads of CIS member states.

The Belarus president is convinced there will be many arguments when preparing the Eurasian Economic Union agreement.

The parties have already discussed via telephone the situation with the Uralkali CEO who is staying under house arrest in Minsk.

The press office of the Kyrgyz president does not elucidate on why Almazbek Atambayev is absent in the Belarusian capital ahead of economic summit.