The 23rd meeting of the Military Committee on military cooperation development among the CSTO member states under the supervision of the Chairman of the Military Committee, Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation - First Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, Army General Valery Gerasimov, took place today via videoconferencing.
From April 8 to 11, 2024, the XXI International Seminar-Meeting on Combined Martial Arts with the heads of combat and physical training of the security ministries and agencies of the CSTO member states took place at the Park Hotel "Horizon", Odintsovo District, Moscow Region.
The event was addressed by Gennady Troislit, the Deputy Head of the Organizational and Planning Department of the CSTO Secretariat, and Oleg Ufimtsev, the President of the Russian Federation of Combined Martial Arts.
Operational duty shifts of defense agencies and ministries of emergency situations of the CSTO member States practiced joint exercise settings
26.06.2021
On June 25, this year, a joint training of duty shifts with defense and emergency ministries of the CSTO member States was held to practice the actions of duty shifts during an incident on the state border of one of the CSTO member States in the Central Asian region. According to the training plan, the emergency situation was caused by terrorist actions and was accompanied by a large-scale spill of an emergency chemical hazardous substance, which required the prompt involvement of rescue units.
Representatives of the CSTO Crisis Response Center, the Central Command Post (National Defense Management Center) of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Crisis Response Center of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Kyrgyz Republic, the National Defense Management Center of the Russian Federation and the Command Post of the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Tajikistan participated in the videoconference training. For the first time, operational duty shifts of the Ministries of Emergency Situations of the CSTO member States of the Central Asian region participated in this work.
Summarizing the results of the training, the head of the CSTO Crisis Response Center, Major General Arsen Rakhmanov noted that the actions of the duty shifts in identifying emergencies were practiced in real time in accordance with the work algorithms of the duty shifts. Information exchange between the authorities involved in the training was successfully carried out, time indicators of work algorithms of duty shifts in case of crisis situations were clarified.
