Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) demonstrate counterterrorism exercise, NATO closely watches
Special Correspondent
Oct. 8, 2010

Participants will include a motorized rifle company from Armenia, paratroopers from Kazakhstan and Tajikistan, five Su-25 planes from Kyrgyzstan and task forces from Belarus. Russia will dispatch 1,700 servicemen and 250 weaponry units including 12 Il-76, Su-24 and Su-27 planes.

The Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) will hold a counterterrorism exercise Oct. 25-29 in Chelyabinsk, Russia.

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