MOSCOW, December 9. /TASS/. Member states of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) must fight against externally enforced destructive narratives, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.
"I believe that the lawmakers of our countries will also contribute to solving such an imperative task as combating the spread of unreliable information and the externally imposed destructive ideological views," the president said, addressing the heads of parliaments of the CSTO countries at the meeting in the Kremlin.
"The traditional values we are talking about, regardless of which religion is prevalent in any given country, are largely the same," Putin emphasized. "We are aware of this, we know it, including since the time of the Soviet Union, when all of our countries lived as part of a unified state," the Russian leader added.
He welcomed the fact that the CSTO countries "have contacts both through civil society and religious organizations." "But, naturally, it is members of parliaments, who work directly with people, protecting the interests of their electorate, who are tasked with consolidating all of this," Putin noted.