The 12th Southern Information Security Forum “Infoforum Sochi 2026” is taking place in Sochi, Russia, from June 30 to July 3. On July 1, the Forum's plenary session brought together representatives of federal and regional authorities, regulatory bodies, leading companies, and international organizations to discuss current challenges in the protection of critical infrastructure, the development of artificial intelligence, and international cooperation.
On June 30 – July 1, 2026, Saint Petersburg hosted a series of events chaired by Alexander Kurenkov, Minister of the Russian Federation for Civil Defence, Emergencies and Elimination of Consequences of Natural Disasters, with the participation of heads of the competent authorities of the CSTO member states responsible for emergency prevention and response.
From June 24 to 26, 2026, CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov paid a working visit to the Republic of Tajikistan at the personal invitation of President Emomali Rahmon.
From June 24 to 26, second staff talks were held in the Republic of Kazakhstan on the organization and conduct of the joint exercise “Rubezh-2026” with units of the Central Asian Collective Rapid Deployment Forces (CAR CRDF).
On September 24, a briefing will be held by the Chief of the Joint Staff of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, Colonel General Anatoly Sidorov
18.09.2019On September 24, 2019 at 14:00 at the International Press Center of the MIA “Russia Today” (Presidential Hall) a multimedia briefing of the chief of the Joint Staff of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, Colonel General Anatoly Sidorov with video connections to sites in Yerevan, Minsk, Nur-Sultan and Bishkek will take place.
Briefing topic: “On the readiness of command and control bodies and forces of the CSTO collective security system to conduct a joint operational-strategic trainings “Combat Brotherhood-2019”.
The briefing will focus on the military-political situation in the CSTO responsibility zone and on the specifics of the operational and strategic trainings “Combat Brotherhood-2019”, which will be held from October 8 to 29, 2019 in the territory of three countries of the Eastern European and Central-Asian regions.
The trainings will be conducted in accordance with the Plan for the joint training of command and control bodies and forces of the CSTO collective security system for 2019, approved by decisions of the Council of Ministers of Defense and the Committee of Secretaries of Security Councils of the Collective Security Treaty Organization.
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