FOR BROTHERS IN ARMS
by Oleg Gorupay
Translated by Pavel Pushkin

Source: Krasnaya Zvezda, December 01, 2006, p. 3
Agency WPS
DEFENSE and SECURITY (Russia)
December 4, 2006 Monday

COMMAND OF ODKB MET WITH STUDENTS OF MILITARY ACADEMIES OF RUSSIAN
ARMED FORCES FROM ODKB MEMBER STATES; Meeting of command of the
Collective Security Treaty Organization (ODKB) with students of
military academies of the Russian Armed Forces from ODKB member states
was held in the staff of ODKB.

Meeting of command of the Collective Security Treaty Organization
(ODKB) with students of military academies of the Russian Armed
Forces from ODKB member states was held in the staff of ODKB. There
are 65 students and 65 officer students from Armenia, 8 students and
8 officer students from Belarus, 243 students and 243 officer students
from Kazakhstan, 39 students and officer students from Kyrgyzstan and
84 students and officer students from Tajikistan currently studying
free of charge in the military educational institutions of the Russian
Armed Forces. Overall, there are about 2,500 such servicemen.

Valery Semerikov, Deputy General Secretary of ODKB, remarks that
meetings of this kind will be organized on a regular basis. Hence,
command of the staff of ODKB is going to actively attract officer
students of academies to scientific and practical work done in the
framework of everyday activity of the organization.

Among the speakers to participants in the meeting were Colonel General
Ivan Babichev, Senior Deputy Chief of the staff of ODKB, Major General
Sergei Chuvakin, director of the planning department of the staff of
ODKB, Colonel Mikhail Usachev of the main department of international
military cooperation of the Defense Ministry of Russia and Nikolai
Bychkov from the Federal Migration Service.