It's in Moscow from 8 to 11. in October, the XXI international tournament in complex martial arts was held among employees in the military-security structures of the CSTO member states. The organizers of the international tournament were the Federation of kokmplex martial arts of Russia (FKE) and the Secretariat of the CSTO. The Russian Federation was represented at the competition by the federal enforcement service, the Ministry of Defense, the Federal Service for the execution of criminal sanctions and the Federal army of the National Guard. Teams from the Ministry of internal affairs of the Republic of Belarus, the Ministry of defense of the Kyrgyz Republic, the Ministry of Defense Of The Republic of Tajikistan and the Ministry of Public Security of Vietnam also participated in the tournament.
Photo: XXI international CSTO tournament in complex martial arts
The collective security treaty organization (CSTO) is a regional international organization, established in 2022. based on the 1992 Tashkent Agreement. year, which brings together more post-Soviet states. The declared objectives of the CSTO: "strengthening peace, International and regional security and stability, protection on the collective basis of independence, territorial integrity and sovereignty of member states, which give member states priority to be achieved by political means.
Photo: Athletes from Kyrgyzstan and Belarus at the CSTO international tournament
The Federation of complete martial arts (FKE) of Russia was founded in 2003. in Moscow at the founding conference in which the representatives of 49 regions of Russia were represented. Currently, the Federation includes 83 regional branches in all constituent entities of the Russian Federation.
Photo: Awards of the CSTO international tournament
Complex martial arts originated as a domestic sport for uniformed persons who do not have the opportunity to train constantly, and are based on the most acceptable and proven methods from elite sports. It is a double discipline consisting of two rounds, where the athlete in the first round demonstrates striking techniques of boxing and kick-boxing, and in the second round performs classical and free wrestling techniques with ground holding techniques from sambo wrestling. The division of combat into striking and wrestling techniques made it possible to TRAIN law enforcement officers or military personnel in a short time to be equally skilled in striking and wrestling techniques.
Photo: guests of the tournament with Nikolai Bordyuzh
The opening of the CSTO international tournament was attended by Russian military and civil servants, among them Major General Anatoly Safronov, hero of the Russian Federation, Nikolai Bordyuzha (CSTO Secretary General 2003-2016) and Valery Semerikov (acting CSTO Secretary General 2018-2019, Deputy General Secretary of the CSTO since 2003.), as well as the executive director of the International Federation of kokmplex martial arts (MFKE) Oleg Ufimtsev. Among the invited guests was the editorial board of the Federal Information and political magazine "Personality of the state" (persona strany), headed by Editor-in-chief Elizaveta Abramova, as well as foreign journalists from Serbia, Canada, Germany, France and others. Dragana Trifkovic, general director of the Center for geostrategic studies and expert of the magazine "Personality of the state" together with other foreign and domestic Russian journalists, she had the opportunity to talk with the long-time Secretary General of the CSTO and the current Deputy Secretary General of the organization during this event. Dragana Trifkovic is 2014. the year she underwent training through the program "Academy of CSTO", organized by the Gorchakov Fund in cooperation with the CSTO, and in 2016. the Center for geostrategic studies organized a series of security conferences in Belgrade (the Assembly of Serbia and the Faculty of security BU), Novi Sad and Niš, where the work of the CSTO was presented. At one time, while adhering to military neutrality, Serbia took part in CSTO exercises and attended meetings as observers, but in recent years it has opted exclusively for cooperation with Euro-Atlantic organizations.
Video: CSTO conference in the Serbian Parliament organized by the Center for geostrategic studies 2016. year
Valery Semerikov, deputy secretary general of the CSTO, told reporters that taking into account the current world military-security and political situation, the CSTO is developing a new strategy of collective security and that the proposals of CSTO member states are welcome. He also stated that the CSTO plans to continue cooperation, including at the level of international conferences, positively assessing the results of CSTO conferences in Serbia. Dragana Trifkovic asked the CSTO leadership about the plans for cooperation with Serbia, considering that after the Pandemic there were no joint activities of the Serbian and Russian armies in the format of bilateral military cooperation or CSTO. Deputy secretary general of the CSTO responded that "the pandemic has affected a temporary pause in close cooperation, because the measures taken have limited the possibilities of participation in various CSTO events, as well as the organization of joint exercises in which Serbia has previously participated. Then the situation began to develop in the direction when priority tasks appeared that we had to solve in the CSTO format. So we can see the immediate pause as the need for the organization to solve certain priority tasks.“
Photo: award of the winner of the CSTO international tournament
Trifkovic also questioned how the CSTO leadership views the growing military-political confrontation at the international level and the possibility of a nuclear war. Valery Semerikov replied that the situation in the CSTO's area of responsibility is good. Nikolai Bordyuzha, long-time Secretary of the CSTO (2003-2016), who is a frequent guest of the Russian media on military and political topics, said that there is a danger of direct conflict with NATO, which automatically means the use of nuclear weapons. "There is a fairly large group of political scientists in Russia who believe that it is necessary to apply nuclear weapons in limited form to some countries. You also know that the concept of the use of nuclear weapons has changed and if the existing threat to Russia's national security is serious and the survival of Russia is questioned, I think our president will make the most difficult decisions without hesitation. Some people play with fire without realizing that they are bringing the whole world to the brink of survival. There are tendencies and all the political scientists I talk to and who are active in the Association of Russian analysts, say that the tendencies are going in that direction. It is not clear what the Western politicians who make such decisions are thinking, because they may be the first to be hit. Because centers that bring political solutions and military facilities will be under attack,” Bordyuzha said.
PHOTO: Participants of the international tournament
A delegation of journalists also attended the finals of the international tournament, when the winners were awarded prizes. At the XXI international tournament in complex martial arts among employees in the military-security structures of the CSTO member states, a total of 120 athletes (84 men and 36 women) competed. According to the results of the tournament in the team competition, the team of the Russian Federation took 1. the national team of the Republic of Belarus took 2nd place. team, and Team 3. place.
Source: Center for Geostrategic Studies
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