IS Poses a Threat to Post-Soviet States

... territory of the former Soviet republics and will only continue to build up their strength in direct proportion to IS’s growing influence in the world in general and in Afghanistan in particular. At the Collective Security Treaty Organization (SCTO) member-states’ foreign ministers’ meeting, held in Dushanbe on April 2, 2015, a question was raised about the implementation of the decision “ On the provision of assistance to the Republic of Tajikistan to strengthen the Tajik-Afghan border ”, adopted by the CSTO summit in Sochi on September 23, 2013. In 2013, the plan was to realize this project in two stages. The first stage involved supplying Tajik border guards with modern weapons,...