On 17 April 2026, a working meeting was held at the CSTO Secretariat between Acting CSTO Deputy Secretary General Samat Ordabaev and the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Central Asia, Head of the United Nations Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia (UNRCCA), Kaha Imnadze.
On 17 April 2026, the 17th meeting of the Working Group under the CSTO Committee of Secretaries of Security Councils on information security was held in Moscow, with the participation of delegations of representatives of national coordinating and competent authorities on information security, as well as experts and specialists from relevant national structures and agencies of the Organization’s member states.
On 16 April 2026, the 21st meeting of the Council of the CSTO Consultative Coordination Center for Computer Incident Response (CCC CSTO) was held in Moscow, with the participation of delegations of representatives of national competent authorities for computer incident response of the Organization’s member states, as well as a delegation of the CSTO Secretariat headed by Umarzoda Umar Safar, Head of the Countering Challenges and Threats Department of the CSTO Secretariat.
On 17 April, the annual training courses for representatives of the CSTO member states who do not have the status of military personnel were completed at the CSTO Secretariat.
On 15 April 2026, a meeting was held in Bishkek between CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov and President of the Kyrgyz Republic Sadyr Japarov.
The Russian Federation
The territory of the Russian Federation is 17075.4 thousand square kilometers, the population as of 01/01/2018 is 146 million 880 thousand 432 people. According to this indicator, the country ranks 9th in the world. Moscow is the capital of Russia.
In accordance with the Constitution adopted on December 12, 1993, the Russian Federation - Russia is a democratic federative legal state with a republican form of government.
The Russian Federation consists of republics, territories, regions, cities of federal subordination, autonomous region, autonomous districts - equal subjects of the Russian Federation.
State power in the Russian Federation is exercised by the President of the Russian Federation, the Federal Assembly, and the Government of the Russian Federation. State power in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation is exercised by the government bodies they form.
The President of the Russian Federation is the head of state, is elected for six years.
The Federal Assembly - the Parliament of Russia, is a representative and legislative body, consists of two chambers - the Council of the Federation and the State Duma.
The Council of Federation consists of two representatives from each subject of the Russian Federation, one from the representative and executive bodies of state power.
The State Duma consists of 450 deputies elected for four years.
Executive power is exercised by the Government of the Russian Federation.
Russia is a permanent member of the UN Security Council.
The CSTO Secretariat, the CSTO Joint Staff, the Branch of the CIS Executive Committee, etc. are located in the capital of the Russian Federation, Moscow.
Russia signed the Collective Security Treaty of May 15, 1992 in Tashkent.
It is a member of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, established in 2003 on the basis and in the development of cooperation within the framework of the Collective Security Treaty.
The President of the Russian Federation is Vladimir PUTIN.
