CSTO

The Putin Doctrine

Jorge Benitez — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 14:28:54 -0500

From Leon Aron, Foreign Affairs: The first imperative of Russia's foreign policy consensus is maintaining the country's position as a nuclear superpower.

Russia invites US military chief to missile defense talks

Jorge Benitez — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 09:30:24 -0600

From RIA Novosti: Russia has invited US Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Martin Dempsey to Moscow for talks which will include the missile defense issue, his Russian counterpart General Valery Gerasimov said on Wednesday.

Russia and six allies planning their own missile defense system

Jorge Benitez — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 15:19:10 -0600

From RIA Novosti: The Collective Security Treaty Organization, a Russian-led military alliance of six former Soviet republics, plans to build an integrated air and missile defense system, the chief of the Russian military’s General Staff said on Tuesday.

Uzbekistan quits Russia-dominated security pact, CSTO

Jorge Benitez — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 19:22:51 -0500

From Vladimir Isachenkov, the AP: Uzbekistan has suspended its participation in a Russia-dominated security pact of ex-Soviet nations, officials said Thursday

Is Russia's CSTO alliance for defense or "put down popular uprisings?"

Jorge Benitez — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 13:18:26 -0500

From Joshua Kucera, Eurasianet.org: “For a long time, Russia had a very uncertain position with the CSTO: it wanted allies, but it didn't want to have to pay,” Yevgeny Buzhinsky, a retired general who until last year headed the Russian Ministry of Defense's International Cooperation Directorate, told EurasiaNet.org.

Moscow Plans for a Post-NATO Afghanistan

Jorge Benitez — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 09:00:20 -0500

From Jakub Kulhanek, the New Atlanticist: The looming withdrawal of US and NATO troops from Afghanistan slated for 2014 poses for Moscow a serious geopolitical predicament.

Leaked cables show US used informer in NATO chief's office

Jorge Benitez — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 08:32:49 -0600

From DPA: NATO staff under the command of both the current NATO chief, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, and his predecessor Jaap de Hoop Scheffer supplied information to authorities in the US, according to the cables released by the whistleblower website WikiLeaks.

Command and Control Questions Divide NATO-Russia Missile Defense Plans

Jorge Benitez — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 13:00:37 -0600

From Fred Weir, the Christian Science Monitor: Media reports that the two sides reached a deal at the Lisbon summit were premature, if not wrong.