POST-SOVIET SECURITY BLOC ENDS JOINT DRILLS IN ARMENIA
RIA Novosti
16:31 | 22/ 08/ 2008
YEREVAN, July 22 (RIA Novosti) – The joint Rubezh-2008
command-and-staff exercises of the Collective Security Treaty
Organization finished Friday in Armenia.
About 4,000 troops from Armenia, Russia and Tajikistan took part
in the four-stage military exercise, which started July 22, on the
territory of Armenia and Russia.
Other CSTO members were represented by military staff from their
defense ministries.
The Collective Security Treaty Organization is a security grouping
comprising Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia,
Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan.