During the “Conduct of combat operations” stage, two main training objectives are being practiced: the occupation by the national contingents of the CRDF CAR of the area of responsibility and the destruction of illegal armed formations that have invaded the territory of a CSTO member state.
The active phase of the joint exercise with the Collective Rapid Deployment Forces of the Central Asian Region (CRDF CAR) “Frontier-2026” has begun at the Koktal training range in the Republic of Kazakhstan. During the exercise, the participating forces are practicing the preparation and conduct of combat operations to destroy illegal armed formations that have invaded the territory of a CSTO member state.
On September 11, 2026, a round table entitled “Kazakhstan–Central Asia–Greater Eurasia: resilience and security amid new challenges” was held at the Center for Social Conservative Policy. The event was organized by the CSTO Secretariat jointly with the Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ICCA RAS) and the Center for Social Conservative Policy (CSCP).
The event was attended by CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov, Director of the ICCA RAS Kirill Babaev, members of the CSTO Permanent Council and representatives of the academic and expert communities of the member states. The discussion was moderated by Yuri Shuvalov, Head of the Information and Public Relations Department of the CSTO Secretariat.
On April 16-17, 2025, a meeting of the Working Group on Military-Economic Cooperation under the Chairman of the CSTO Interstate Commission on Military-Economic Cooperation was held.
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The meeting was held in the city of Moscow at the CSTO Joint Staff under the chairmanship of Viktor Zinoviev, Secretary of the CSTO Interstate Commission on Military-Economic Cooperation (ICMEC, Commission).
The meeting participants reviewed the progress in implementing the decisions of the XXII ICMEC meeting held in September 2024 in Bishkek (the Kyrgyz Republic), as well as discussed the range of issues to be submitted to the XXIII meeting of the Commission in September-October of the current year in the Republic of Kazakhstan.
In the course of the work, issues related to the organization of personnel training for enterprises of the defense-industrial (military-industrial) complexes of the CSTO member states, the establishment of an interstate system for cataloguing supplies for the armed forces, and the provision of mutual protection of rights to the results of intellectual activity obtained and used in the course of military-economic cooperation in the CSTO format were considered.
In the process of discussing other issues on the Agenda of the meeting, it was deemed advisable to enhance the effectiveness of measures of a practical nature aimed at further developing military and economic cooperation within the Collective Security Treaty Organization.
