News archive on the topic "CSTO"

If Armenia leaves the CSTO, this will change the balance of power in the Caucasus. CSTO Secretary General Imangali Tasmagambetov said this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports, assessing the statement of Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan about Yerevan’s desire for close cooperation with NATO. “Here it is important to note that member states adhere to a multi-vector policy in interaction with external players, which remains their sovereign right...

Literally before our eyes, the process of Armenia’s geopolitical turn towards the West is accelerating, which is being pushed even faster by Yerevan’s demands for the withdrawal of Russian border guards, the disconnection of Mir bank cards and the visit of NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. International columnist for PolitNavigator Ainur Kurmanov comes to this conclusion in his new publication. Actually, already during the last visits of Prime Minister Pashinyan to Munich, Paris...

The representative of Armenia did not arrive today at the meeting of the CSTO summit in Minsk. In this regard, many recalled Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s May threats to leave this organization, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. However, today the flags of Armenia were present in the meeting room, and even in the joint photo of the leaders. Under him stood the organization’s secretary general Imangali Tasmagambetov. Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry...

On the eve of its next summit in Minsk, the CSTO is entering a state of crisis and a situation of stagnant problems that urgently need to be resolved against the backdrop of increasing threats from NATO. International observer of PolitNavigator Ainur Kurmanov comes to this conclusion in his new material. The first thing that catches your eye is that the current liberal pro-Western leadership of Armenia is actually...

Many agents of Western influence, having lost the opportunity to work on the territory of the Russian Federation, flee to Russian-speaking CIS countries and do harm from there. Executive Secretary of the CSTO PA Sergei Pospelov stated this during a press conference in Moscow, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “It is fundamentally important for us that the protection of electoral processes is not only on the territory of the Russian Federation, but also on the territory of all countries...

The CSTO member countries will have to take a definite position on the Ukrainian conflict. President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko announced this today at a meeting with CSTO Secretary General Imangali Tasmagambetov, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “If someone thinks that the conflict between Ukraine and Russia is not our conflict, that we will sit quietly somewhere, nothing like that will happen. The time will come (it’s not far,...

The ruling liberal elite in Armenia is trying with all its might to disavow the role of Russia and its peacekeepers both in Karabakh and in the South Caucasus as a whole, thereby justifying its plan to withdraw from the CSTO and break away from the EAEU. In fact, for pro-Western Yerevan, the blocking of the Lachin corridor by Azerbaijani “ecologists” and “civil activists” was a real gift, which is now actively...

The CSTO is an extremely useful decorative organization for the Russian Federation, thanks to which all other participating countries satisfy their local ambitions, and therefore, at least, do not interfere. Colonel of the Central Apparatus of the RF Ministry of Defense in reserve Vladimir Trukhan stated this on air on the PolitWera channel, PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “I came to the conclusion, looking at this CSTO, that...

Ukraine needs to take an active position towards Armenia at a historical moment when disagreements have emerged in the CSTO. The goal is to disperse Russian forces across several fronts. Ilya Kusa, an expert at the Ukrainian Institute of the Future analytical center, said this on air on the Alpha and Omega Internet channel, PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “We are skeptical about Armenia. I think this is...

Anti-Russian forces are growing stronger in Armenia, and Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan even staged a demarche at the CSTO summit, refusing to sign a number of final documents, thereby providing additional food for supporters of leaving the organization and further distancing themselves from Moscow. Even before the start of the summit, a crowded anti-Russian march took place in Yerevan, in which thousands of pro-Western activists took part in support...

The CSTO countries will only be able to survive by rallying around Russia. President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko announced this today at the CSTO summit in Yerevan, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Recently, the media has been promoting a thesis: the fate of the CSTO depends on the Russian operation in Ukraine. If Russia wins, the CSTO will live. If, God forbid, it does not win, the CSTO will not exist...

At the end of last week, the Kyrgyz military department suddenly announced the cancellation of the planned command and staff exercises with the participation of the CSTO peacekeeping forces “Indestructible Brotherhood-2022”. This caused surprise, since they were already scheduled to take place from Monday 10 to Friday 14 October with the participation of officers of the armies of the allied states and observers from Mongolia, Serbia, Syria, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. This is enough…

Yerevan will not officially withdraw from the CSTO, but at the same time will minimize participation in this organization. This opinion, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports, was expressed by the head of the Analytical Center for Strategic Research and Initiatives, Hayk Khalatyan. “At the moment, I consider Armenia’s exit from the CSTO to be unlikely. But at the same time, if previously the main initiators of deepening the military component of the CSTO were Russia...

The interstate associations that exist in the post-Soviet space under the auspices of Russia, like the CSTO, were created not out of consideration of common interests, but primarily for show. This explains the current crisis of such alliances. Political scientist Sergei Mikheev stated this on the Rossiya 1 TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “We must recognize the fact that all these associations of ours...