During the “Conduct of combat operations” stage, two main training objectives are being practiced: the occupation by the national contingents of the CRDF CAR of the area of responsibility and the destruction of illegal armed formations that have invaded the territory of a CSTO member state.
The active phase of the joint exercise with the Collective Rapid Deployment Forces of the Central Asian Region (CRDF CAR) “Frontier-2026” has begun at the Koktal training range in the Republic of Kazakhstan. During the exercise, the participating forces are practicing the preparation and conduct of combat operations to destroy illegal armed formations that have invaded the territory of a CSTO member state.
On September 11, 2026, a round table entitled “Kazakhstan–Central Asia–Greater Eurasia: resilience and security amid new challenges” was held at the Center for Social Conservative Policy. The event was organized by the CSTO Secretariat jointly with the Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ICCA RAS) and the Center for Social Conservative Policy (CSCP).
The event was attended by CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov, Director of the ICCA RAS Kirill Babaev, members of the CSTO Permanent Council and representatives of the academic and expert communities of the member states. The discussion was moderated by Yuri Shuvalov, Head of the Information and Public Relations Department of the CSTO Secretariat.
CSTO takes measures in connection with the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19)
19.03.2020
The Collective Security Treaty Organization member states is extremely concerned about the spread of the COVID-19 virus infection, defined by the World Health Organization as a pandemic. The CSTO highly appreciates the determined efforts and measures taken by international and regional organizations, as well as by countries that are members of the CSTO, to prevent the spread of coronavirus in their territories and minimize the consequences of the epidemic.
As part of the preventive measures being taken using the capabilities of the CSTO Crisis Response Center in the CSTO Secretariat and the Joint Staff, in close cooperation with the ministries and departments of the Organization’s member states, the epidemiological situation in the collective security regions is monitored on a daily basis.
A set of antiviral measures has been planned and implemented. As practical steps, official business trips of employees to states with an unfavorable epidemiological situation were temporarily canceled. A special regime of the working bodies of the Organization is being introduced. It was decided to limit the holding of events in the buildings of the CSTO Secretariat and the Joint Staff with the wide participation of representatives of the member states of the Organization and the visits of the Secretariat and Joint Staff of the Collective Security Treaty Organization outside Moscow. Some employees are transferred to remote mode.
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CSTO Press Secretary Vladimir Zaynetdinov
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