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.”
Participants in the CSTO trainings “Indestructible Brotherhood-2025” and “Barrier-2025” are heading to the Republic of Tajikistan
14.10.2025
From October 14 to 19, units participating in joint trainings with the CSTO Peacekeeping Forces “Indestructible Brotherhood-2025” and the special training with the joint formation of NBC protection and medical support of the CSTO “Barrier-2025” are regrouping in the Republic of Tajikistan.
Contingents of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces) are being sent from the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, and the Russian Federation to the training area in accordance with the plan. Personnel and cargo are being delivered by air and road transport.
The “Fakhrabad” training ground is hosting the joint training “Indestructible Brotherhood-2025,” which will focus on preparing and conducting a peacekeeping operation by the CSTO Collective Peacekeeping Forces on the territory of a member state of the Organization. For the first time as part of the peacekeeping training, a special training is being held with the joint formation of NBC protection and medical support of the CSTO, “Barrier-2025,” during which issues related to the elimination of sources of biological threats will be worked out in the interests of the CSTO Collective Peacekeeping Forces.
The active phases of the CSTO trainings are being conducted in conjunction with the final stage of the joint anti-terrorism training of the competent authorities of the member states of the Commonwealth of Independent States, “Commonwealth Anti-Terror 2025.”
