In mid-January, 2022, the news began to spread the news that the Island of Freedom could join the military-political bloc of the post-Soviet countries. We checked the reliability of such messages.
January 16, 2022 on the YouTube channel "The essence of things" was published The video entitled “Cuba Parliament voted to join the state to the CSTO”, which at the time of publication of this text scored more than 120,000 views. The author argued that the deputies unanimously approved the idea of submitting an application for an entry into the organization, read out the alleged statement by the president of the country about the reasons for such a decision and justifying the choice between the CSTO and NATO, spoke about the intention of Cuba to transfer the radio electronic center in Lourdess, provide a place for the construction of a military base and allow the testing of Russian weapons on its territory. "News ”(often with reference to this video), publicity on VKontakte actively distributed, including "For strong Russia, for V.V. Putin!", "The latest news of the president", "Kremlin Agents", "Donbass Media Group Gorlovka" and others.
The organization of the Collective Security Treaty (CSTO) has been conducting its history since 1992, when the leaders of Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan have in Tashkent signed Corresponding document. The main idea of the association is expressed in article 4 of the contract: in the case of external aggression to one of the signature states, such actions will be considered an attack on all members of the CSTO. In article 10 of the contract It is saidthat he "is open to join all interested states that share its goals and principles." So, in 1993, Azerbaijan, Belarus and Georgia became members of the CSTO. South of the South Caucasus along with Uzbekistan left Six years later.
On the interest of Cuba in CSTO membership back in 2015 told Sergey Naryshkin, who then held the post of chairman of the State Duma. The speaker of the lower house of the Russian parliament noted that Russia is ready to offer the status of an observer to the Latin American state in the parliamentary assembly of the organization. However, judging by site Assembly, Cuba did not become an observer. In January 2022, against the backdrop of exacerbation of relations with NATO, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Ryabkov did not rule outthat in the event of negotiations, Russia can place a “military infrastructure” in Cuba and Venezuela.
Nevertheless, there are serious grounds to doubt the veracity of the video quickly gaining popularity. It is significant that it is completely compiling from other videos: a certain meeting in the Cuba Parliament, news programs of Russian television channels, notes from army exercises, etc. Moreover, nothing is said about the vote regarding the application for joining the CSTO site National Assembly of People's Power and site President of Cuba. The first messages about the decision allegedly made in parliament appeared Even the day before Ryabkov’s statement, which seems especially strange.
The text read by the author of the video on the “essence of things” and then duplicated by many users of social networks completely repeats the note, published January 10 on the website of the Panorama news agency. This resource publishes exclusively comic, completely invented news, which directly warns its readers. We have more than once analyzed cases when a variety of people, from ordinary Internetusers to Dean of the faculty of Moscow State University, they did not pay attention to the disclaimer from the Panorama and gave their news for real ones.
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