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to discuss the key areas of cooperation between the two historic partners, as well as existing and potential hurdles to progress in this area.
Armenia is the only South Caucasian country participating in the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), although truly close engagement seems to exist only with Russia. Hence, two questions. First, how effective is Armenian membership in the CSTO, and second, what are the prospects for Russia-Armenia bilateral cooperation?
As a most responsible CSTO ...
Interview with Farkhod Tolipov
Interview
Today pundits are talking at length about cooperation between NATO and the CSTO over Afghanistan in 2014. We met with
Farkhod Tolipov
, PhD in Political Science, Director of Caravan of Knowledge, an Uzbek think tank, to ask his opinion about the relevance of such discussions and the parties’ capabilities to successfully ...
... provides information about the potential steps Russia should take in order to respond to the crisis-prone development of the countries in the region. The work that has been done by the RIAC experts is highly appreciated not only in the academic circles: CSTO Secretary General expressed his keen interest in the analytical work undertaken by the RIAC.
In his letter to RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov Nikolay Bordyuzha stated that the RIAC working paper aroused the interest of the CSTO Secretariat ...
... are also expected to demand Moscow's attention as major economic partners, while Russia is likely to cooperate with them on a bilateral basis, as it does with Baku and Kiev.
Integration on security issues is most likely to proceed within the current CSTO format. After Uzbekistan's withdrawal in 2012, the common security space seems to have taken shape, and is set to incorporate Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus as the core; Armenia as the outpost in Transcaucasia; and Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan as the ...
Pragmatism or Neo-Imperialism
In Russian
article was published on
December 18, 2012
A regular summit of Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) member states will be held in Moscow on December 19, 2012. This meeting will take place in a troubled international climate for Russia. Relations between Russia and the West have perceptibly cooled over recent months: the United States makes strong ...
... Russian position in Central Asia. Back in May 2012, Russia increased friction with Tajikistan because of the conditions of its accession to the Customs Union.
On June 28 Uzbekistan suspended its membership in the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO). On July 11 the Minister of Defense of Kyrgyzstan Talaibek Omuraliev said that the
Kyrgyz side intended to raise the rent
for the use of Russian military facilities on the territory of the Republic.
At the Third International Gas Congress, held ...
Will the CSTO been able to counter the Afghan threat after the withdrawal of NATO forces?
If back in 2001 the international coalition hadn’t launched a counter-terrorist operation in Afghanistan, it would have been the CSTO member-states that had to fight ...
