Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said this at a security conference in Moscow, APA’s Moscow correspondent reports.
According to him, Russia is strengthening its military bases abroad as well as helping to boost the armed forces of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO).
“In recent years, we have worked to strengthen the Russian military bases in Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan: we have increased the number of air defense units at the Kant airbase (in Kyrgyzstan), and the 201st base now has a divisional structure,” said Shoigu.