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 Deputy Secretary General Takhir Khayrulloyev took part in "Army-2022" Forum
16.08.2022A delegation of the CSTO Secretariat headed by the Deputy Secretary General of the Organization Takhir Khayrulloyev took part in the opening of the VIII International Military-Technical Forum "Army-2022" and the VIII International Army Games, which took place on August 15, 2022, in the military-patriotic park of culture and leisure of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation "Patriot".
The Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke at the opening ceremony.
In the course of the round table held as part of the Forum on the theme: "Single contours of biological, cognitive, information, energy and food security of the countries in the conditions of sanctions wars. The CSTO, the BRICS, and the SCO - New Challenges, Prospects, and Opportunities", an exchange of views on collective security in the context of sanctions wars took place. The CSTO Secretariat's position was presented by Alexander Kuznetsov, Advisor of the Department for Countering Challenges and Threats.
The materials of the round table will be published on the website of the socio-political publication "Allies. CSTO”.