28 April marks the Day of the CSTO Joint Staff. It should be recalled that on 28 April 2003, in Dushanbe, the Collective Security Council, guided by the need to establish a military staff body responsible for implementing the military component of the Collective Security Treaty, adopted the Decision “On the Establishment of the Joint Staff of the Collective Security Treaty Organization.”
On 27 April 2026, within the framework of the International Scientific and Practical Conference “Contours of a New Architecture of Collective Security: Current Issues of Information and Analytical Partnership within the CSTO,” held at MGIMO University of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, a round table entitled “Eurasian Analytical Platform: New Approaches in a New Geopolitical Reality” took place. During the event, Head of the Information and Public Relations Department of the CSTO Secretariat Yuriy Shuvalov delivered a presentation on “The Eurasian Analytical Network: A New Cognitive Architecture of Collective Security.”
A meeting was held between the CSTO Secretary General Imangali Tasmagambetov and the Chairman of the Russian State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin
13.10.2025
On October 13, 2025, in Moscow, the CSTO Secretary General Imangali Tasmagambetov met with Vyacheslav Volodin, the Chairman of the Russian State Duma and the Chairman of the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly, where they had a detailed exchange of views on the situation in the Organization's area of responsibility and a number of other regions.
The interlocutors have discussed preparations for the meeting of the Council of the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly, as well as a number of pressing tasks facing the Organization in the context of Russia's chairmanship in 2026.
Imangali Tasmagambetov has reported on preparations for the upcoming joint meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers, the Council of Defense Ministers, the Committee of Secretaries of Security Councils, and the session of the CSTO Collective Security Council in November this year.
