“Indeed, a meeting is scheduled (December 29), they will also meet at the informal CIS summit on December 28,” TASS quoted Peskov as saying.

He added that he did not know whether Putin and Lukashenko would play hockey in St. Petersburg.

Earlier it became known that the leaders of the countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States will personally come to St. Petersburg for a traditional informal meeting, which will be held on December 28.