On July 15, 2026, the High-Level Regional Meeting “Enhancing Capacities to Prevent the Supply of Weapons to Terrorists in Central Asia” was held in Moscow, organized by the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism with the participation of the Russian side.
On July 14, 2026, a working meeting was held at the CSTO Secretariat between CSTO Deputy Secretary General Valery Semerikov and UN Assistant Secretary-General Alexander Zuev.
From July 7 to 9, second staff talks were held in the Russian Federation on the organization and conduct of the CSTO Collective Rapid Reaction Forces (CRRF) command-and-staff exercise “Interaction-2026”, the special reconnaissance exercise “Poisk-2026”, and the logistics support exercise “Echelon-2026”.
In accordance with the 2026 Action Plan of the Coordinating Council of Heads of the Competent Authorities for Countering Illicit Drug Trafficking of the CSTO Member States, and as part of the Russian Federation's priorities during its 2026 CSTO Chairmanship, the sub-regional counter-narcotics operation “Kanal – Amber Coast” was conducted from June 29 to July 3, 2026. The operation was aimed at disrupting trafficking routes for narcotic drugs, their precursors and analogues, new psychoactive substances, and potent substances into the CSTO area of responsibility, neutralizing international transnational drug trafficking groups, dismantling clandestine drug production facilities, undermining the economic foundations of the drug trade, including the laundering of drug proceeds.
The Republic of Kazakhstan hosts "Search-2022" training of reconnaissance units of the armed forces of the CSTO member states
05.10.2022
Intelligence agencies and units of the Collective Security Treaty Organization member states participate in a special training "Search-2022".
The joint training takes place at the “Matybulak” and “Gvardeysky” training ranges in Zhambyl Oblast.
According to the plan of the training "Search-2022" command bodies and contingent units will practice actions to localize an armed conflict in the CSTO region of collective security.
In the course of the training, in order to deploy a group of the Collective Rapid Reaction Forces and prepare for a joint operation, continuous reconnaissance was organized, taking into account the rapidly changing situation.
In implementing the decision taken by the CSTO Collective Rapid Reaction Forces commander, scouts will be tasked with identifying enemy detachments bypassing them using special reconnaissance equipment.
The purpose of the special training is to improve interaction between command and control bodies, increase the level of field training, interoperability and coherence of reconnaissance units.
