At a meeting of the Collective Security Council of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) in Sochi on Monday, the Russian president raised the issue of the “spilling over” of terrorism. “The CSTO cannot turn a blind eye to such a serious problem as affairs in Syria,” Russian President Vladimir Putin said, noting that “armed groups operating on the territory of that state had not emerged from nowhere and would not evaporate. The problem of terrorism spilling from one country into some other is quite real and may directly affect interests of any of our countries,” he added.