... regional organizations of the former Soviet Union? Perhaps, playing this issue up is just the mass media’s attempt to at least somehow comment on these sessions that otherwise wouldn’t be of any interest to the public?
The reluctance of Russia’s CSTO and EEU allies to support Moscow on such issues as the Su-24 incident and FTA with Ukraine not only at the level of these organizations’ collective declarations, but also at the level of the member countries’ individual statements undoubtedly ...
... that the question has been raised shows that there is a need for instruments that would help overcome the contradictions. The EEU and other institutions may revisit the issue of a Greater Europe from Lisbon to Vladivostok. The concept may morph into a concept of Greater Eurasia.
In the political sphere, it is in Russia’s interests to develop regional security organizations, most notably the CSTO. However, dialogue on security issues should also be pursued within the SCO framework. That organization is also a proper ...
... attention with its multilateral format, which has long been the subject of the phrase “either good or nothing.”
In both Russia and other post-Soviet states, the Commonwealth is viewed as an instrument for soft adaptation to gradual, but consistent ... ... of the broadest possible military-technical cooperation
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. That the formats of bilateral links with Russia and even the CSTO no longer suffice for this field is witnessed by the Burabay summit, which adopted declarations on the joint struggle against ...
... CSTO’s central country. In fact, the CSTO could be divided into three zones, i.e. Russia and the Armenia-based south, Russia plus Belarus in the west, and Central Asia.
The CSTO is critically important in view of political containment, as it has become a capable actor in the construction of the entire regional security environment. Moreover, before the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) emerged, the CSTO had actually been the most efficient structure in the Commonwealth of Independent States. Quite naturally,...
