A QUARTER OF THE CENTURY IS ON THE GUARD OF COLLECTIVE SECURITY AGAINST THE ASYMMETRIC CONFLICTS AND HYBRID WARS (TO THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE COLLECTIVE SECURITY TREATY AND THE 15TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CSTO)

In 2017 was the 25th anniversary of the signing of the Collective Security Treaty and the 15 years of the establishment of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO). This organization stands on guard for the regional security of Central Asian countries. In addition, countries in the region actively involved in the work of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), which also builds its policy on the position of maintaining security in the Central Asian region. Only the coalition efforts of all interested States can provide an effective counteraction to threats of terrorism, Islamic extremism, separatism, drug trafficking. The organizational-institutional framework the CSTO and the SCO allow to the countries of the region to combat threats of the asymmetric conflicts and hybrid wars. The paper is devoted to the institutional forms, and future prospects, the capabilities and problem points of cooperation in the field of security in the framework of these international organizations.