Armenia has so far proven that it is a member of the Collective Security Treaty Organization for a reason, Yevgeny Satanovsky, president of the Russian Institute of the Middle East, said NEWS.am on January 11.

He said that it means that despite all the difficulties in relations between the current official authorities of Russia and Armenia, Russia should continue to pay attention to the security of Armenia as well.

The CSTO peacekeeping mission in Kazakhstan, in his assessment, has fulfilled its function by turning the tide.

This situation, according to Satanovsky, was absolutely critical, and the sending of CSTO troops was the strategic decision that did not allow Kazakhstan to explode, which would have affected the entire post-Soviet space.

 He said that the hysteria in the Turkish media focusing on the fact that Russian-Armenian occupiers came to Kazakhstan looks ridiculous because the Turks have not noticed anyone else. They have not identified anyone for themselves except for the Russian and Armenian soldiers. All this shows that the CSTO mission failed a lot of things. The key facilities in Kazakhstan have been taken under control, and as a consequence, he is convinced, the Kazakh security forces have ceased to hesitate.

 As for possible anti-Russian sentiments in Kazakhstan, the information field, according to him, is already blown up by pan-Turkic, pan-Islamist, pro-Western foundations and influence groups.

Satanovsky sees no connection between the latest shelling of Azerbaijani soldiers in the direction of the part of Karabakh that is not under their control, as well as the anti-Armenian and anti-Russian propaganda in the Azerbaijani media in connection with the start of the CSTO peacekeeping mission in Kazakhstan.