CSTO: a Time for Public Diplomacy?

... mention the visits of CSTO Secretary General Nikolay Bordyuzha to Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan in January 2014, when a new border conflict arose between those two countries. Maria Nebolsina: IS Poses a Threat to Post-Soviet States The next move that the CSTO could make is to add public diplomacy to its official (or semiofficial) diplomacy, i.e. to engage with civil society in the member states. One of the main recent threats to security is the media impact on society by third countries (they normally refer to the United States) ...