It is called the Collective Security Treaty Organization.

The acronym is CSTO.

It is little known here in the United States, but it's critical to understand the way Moscow

has arranged the map of Eurasia these last years and what has happened to that map during

Ukraine conflict.

I welcome Ivana Stradner of the Foundation for the Defensive Democracies, writing about

the CSTO and the alienation from Moscow.

Ivana, very good evening to you.

What is the intention?

What is the mission of the Collective Security Treaty Organization headed by Moscow?

Good evening to you.

Good evening.

Thank you very much for inviting me.

So the Collective Security Treaty Organization, I like to call it as a mimicking something

that mimics our need to.

So it's a Russia-led Treaty Organization Security Organization that has several members

such as Armenia, Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.

And it was founded in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union to improve actually the

regional stability.

That was the key role of the CSTO.

But nevertheless, the CSTO has something that is called Article 4 that is similar to

our Article 5 that basically claims that for an attack to a member state is an attack

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