FYI
Warsaw Treaty Organization
Warsaw Treaty Organization or Warsaw Pact,alliance set up under a mutual defense treaty signed in Warsaw, Poland, in 1955 by Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union. The organization was the Soviet bloc's equivalent of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Initiated as an alliance made necessary by the remilitarization of West Germany under the Paris Pacts of 1954, the treaty was binding for 20 years but would lapse in the event of a general European collective security treaty.
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The 1989 collapse of the Communist governments in Eastern Europe made the treaty superfluous, as the new governments repudiated their former ally, the Soviet Union. The Warsaw Treaty Organization dissolved in June, 1991.
http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0851510.html
put this below with the above. Looks like they have done away with the Warsaw Treaty (catch the last sentence of above). Then add this looks like the Old New Expanded Soviet Union to me!
16:53 2002-05-14
Collective Security Treaty to be transformed into international regional organization
The Collective Security Treaty signatories, which are now establishing a new organization, have joined hand not against third parties but threats they are facing, emphasised the Russian leader.
Belarussian President Aleksander Lukashenko, said, on his part, that the Organization is going to be a strong military and political organization, a major centre of power in the post-Soviet area. The Organization will be so powerful that other military and political institutions, particularly NATO, will have to reckon with it, according to Mr Lukashenko.
http://english.pravda.ru/cis/2002/05/14/28685.html
This is what they are doing in the news lately...the first one out of the box is a bummer!
UN assigns observer status to Collective Security Treaty Organization
RBC, 03.12.2004, Moscow 17:32:16.The Russian Federation welcomes the decision of the UN General Assembly to provide the status of observer in the UN General Assembly to the Collective Security Treaty Organization, Alexander Yakovenko, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, declared
http://www.rbcnews.com/free/20041203173216.shtml
EURASIA INSIGHT
RUSSIAN LEADERS MULL GEOPOLITICAL MOVES IN 2005
Sergei Blagov 1/04/05
Hoping to prevent the further erosion of its traditional sphere of influence, Russia aims in 2005 to speed the development of multilateral organizations involving former Soviet republics. Many policy experts in Moscow are concerned, however, that President Vladimir Putin’s haste in trying to forge tighter bonds among CIS states could force Russia into propping up authoritarian regimes, especially in Central Asia.
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Some Central Asian leaders, clearly concerned that the popular forces unleashed by the revolutions in Georgia and Ukraine could potentially spread to their own nations, have become increasingly receptive to Russia’s overtures. The Islamic radical threat is another major influence prompting Central Asian leaders, most notably Uzbekistan’s Islam Karimov, to explore regional multilateral options.
http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/insight/articles/eav010405.shtml
All in the War on Terror! hummmm