Two CIS air defence exercises planned in 2005

Interfax-AVN military news agency web site
9 Dec 04

MOSCOW

The CIS Unified Air Defence System will hold two exercises in spring
and summer 2005, the Russian air force deputy commander-in-chief for
air defence, Lt-Gen Aytech Bizhev, said on Wednesday [9 December].

There will be exercises involving Russia, Armenia, Belarus,
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan in the middle of August at the
Ashuluk range in [Russia’s] Astrakhan Region, he said. Ukraine,
Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan may attend as observers, he said.

Bizhev said that in April Tajikistan will host exercises in which the
destruction of terrorists in the air and on the ground will be
rehearsed and Russian bases in Kant, Kyrgyzstan, and Dushanbe,
Tajikistan, used.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress