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The news of a full U.S. withdrawal of its troops from Afghanistan by September reinvigorated Russia’s military attention to the Central Asian region. Russia maintains multifaceted military relations with the countries of the region, including under the framework of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), a military alliance that includes Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan but not Uzbekistan or Turkmenistan. The recent events motivated the Russian Defense Ministry to make extra arrangements, and Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu traveled to Tajikistan and Uzbekistan to sign additional agreements to ensure its involvement should instability in Afghanistan envelope the region.
On April 27, in Tajikistan, Shoigu and his Tajik counterpart Sherali Mirzo signed an agreement to establish joint air defense systems that clearly will be directed at a potential threat from Afghanistan.
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