By bne IntelIiNews Kyrgyzstan has asked Moscow-led security bloc CSTO to deploy peacekeeping troops at its disputed border with Tajikistan. Bishkek says the move to bring in CSTO (Collective Security Treaty Organisation) soldiers is needed to ensure a ceasefire holds between the two ex-Soviet Central Asian countries. Observers will question whether Russia, embroiled in its war in Ukraine, would have the military capacity and political focus to attend to such troubles in its “backyard”. At least 100 people in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan were killed in September during fighting involving the use o…
