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.
A meeting of the Working Group on Military-Economic Cooperation under the Chairman of the CSTO Interstate Commission on Military-Economic Cooperation was held on 17-18 April 2024
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The meeting was held in the city of Moscow under the chairmanship of Viktor Zinoviev, Secretary of the CSTO Interstate Commission on Military-Economic Cooperation (ICMEC, Commission).
The meeting participants have reviewed the implementation of the decisions of the XXI ICMEC meeting held in April 2023 in Dushanbe of the Republic of Tajikistan, as well as discussed the range of issues to be submitted to the XXII meeting of the Commission in September this year in the Kyrgyz Republic.
An important result of the work was the finalization of draft documents on the development of multilateral cooperation between enterprises and organizations of the defense-industrial (military-industrial) complexes of CSTO member states, the conduct of research and development work within the framework of the CSTO, and issues 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.
The possibility of organizing the training of engineering and technical personnel for defense enterprises of CSTO member states has also been considered, on the basis of which appropriate proposals have been drawn up for consideration within the framework of the CSTO Intestate Commission on Military-Economic Cooperation in order to organize such work on a systematic basis.
As a result of the discussion of the issues on the Agenda of the meeting, it was deemed necessary to continue to coordinate the draft documents on the establishment of an interstate system for cataloguing supplies for the armed forces of CSTO member states.
In addition, the draft Work Plan of the Commission for 2025 was agreed upon.
