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.”
The CSTO joint training "Cobalt-2022" started in the Kyrgyz Republic, at the "Edelweiss" training range
03.08.2022On August 3, 2022 in the Kyrgyz Republic, at the “Edelweiss” training range in Balykchy, the opening ceremony of the tactical and special training "Cobalt-2022" with the special forces formations included in the CSTO Collective Rapid Reaction Forces (CRRF) took place.
The CSTO Deputy Secretary General Valery Semerikov made welcoming remarks at the event. Major General Oktyabr Urmambetov, the Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of the Kyrgyz Republic, noted that the purpose of the training was to prevent criminal activity in the member States, as well as close cooperation of the security agencies of the CSTO countries.
During the training, combined groups of special forces of the member states will perform training and applied operational and combat tasks of searching, blocking and neutralizing of gangs, terrorist groups, as well as closing drug smuggling channels and detection of caches, laboratories for the storage and production of drugs and their destruction.
The training plan calls for a command and staff training with the Operational Staff of the CSTO Collective Rapid Deployment Forces formations of special forces on planning a special operation and organizing interaction and management of dissimilar forces and equipment. At the end of the training, there will be shooting competitions using various types of weapons as well as sports competitions in soccer and volleyball among the teams of the training participants. The training will continue until 5 August, 2022.
