May 31, 2024
From left: CSTO Secretary General Imangali Tasmagambetov, Russian Airborne Troops Commander Andrei Serdyukov, Belarus' Defense Minister Viktor Khrenin, Kazakhstan's Defense Minister Ruslan Jaqsylyqov, Kyrgyzstan's Defense Minister Baktybek Bekbolotov, Russia's Defense Minister Andrei Belousov and Tajikistan's Defense Minister Sherali Mirzo pose for a photo prior to the meeting of defense ministers of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) in Almaty, Kazakhstan, Friday, May 31, 2024. (Vladimir Tretyakov/NUR.KZ via AP)