 And from news outside Africa, Russian President Vladimir Putin today met his Tadjet Kistin's counterpart, Imomali Ramon, ahead of the annual Summit of the Collective Security Treaty, organization CSTO in Moscow. The monetary alliance, which is sometimes called Moscow's answer to NATO, draws on the armed forces of its six members, Russia, Belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tadjet Kistin. Russia, with overall active forces of 900,000, is by far the CSTO's most powerful member.