Recommendations on Harmonization of the Legislation of the CSTO Member States on Ensuring Internal Stability and Counteracting Technologies of External Destructive Impact Aimed at Destabilizing the Socio-Political Situation

Model Recommendations on Harmonization of the Legislation of the CSTO Member States on Ensuring Internal Stability and Counteracting Technologies of External Destructive Impact Aimed at Destabilizing the Socio-Political Situation were signed by the CSTO PA Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin and approved at the plenary session of the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly on November 5, 2019. The Recommendations were then promptly sent to the parliaments of the Organization’s Member States for further application. Current events have shown the Recommendations’ utmost relevance.
They are aimed at establishing common regulatory approaches to counteracting the use of technologies of external destructive impact aimed at destabilizing the socio-political situation and are intended to contribute to the protection of the constitutional order of the CSTO Member States.
Current events, including those in the CSTO Member States, have shown that the national legislation in this sphere is not perfect; it contains different approaches to regulation of activities of political parties, public associations, unions, including trade unions, and procedures for holding mass events.
Therefore, it was suggested that the main efforts to harmonize the CSTO Member States’ legislation in this area should focus on the following:
– harmonization of legislation regulating the activities of political parties, associations and trade unions, as well as the procedure for holding mass events;
– optimization of the system of criminal justice to counteract the destructive impact on the socio-political situation and to protect the foundations of the constitutional order of the CSTO Member States,
– development of effective legal mechanisms that would facilitate implementation of legislation regulating activities of political parties, associations, etc.
It is no secret that the CSTO Member States are of high interest to global players, if only because of their abundant natural and human resources, geographic location, quite a high level of political and economic integration, significant internal migration flows and a simplified mechanism for crossing state borders. Therefore, a targeted destructive impact on one of the Member States can quite easily spread to the rest of the Organization. At the same time, it is evident that the geopolitical confrontation increasingly often uses unconventional forms and methods of warfare, which include information and psychological warfare, “colour revolutions” and “controlled chaos.”
Incidentally, they rely heavily on leveraging parties, public associations and trade unions to create, unite and coordinate protest actions aimed at changing the existing constitutional order of a state.
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