On August 14, consultations were held via videoconference at the CSTO Joint Staff with representatives of relevant ministries and agencies of the CSTO member states on organizing joint training activities for command and control bodies and formations of the CSTO collective security system in 2027.
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”.
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.
