On June 23, 2026, a ceremonial event was held at the Advanced Training Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation to mark the 20th anniversary of the CSTO Collective Security Council's decision granting the Institute the status of the Basic Educational Institution for Continuing Professional Education of law enforcement and special service personnel of the CSTO member states in the fields of counterterrorism, combating extremism, illicit drug trafficking, illegal migration, and other forms of transnational organized crime, as well as for the training of specialists for peacekeeping missions and teaching staff of educational institutions.
85 years ago, the Great Patriotic War began. The war machine of Nazi Germany launched a treacherous attack against Soviet cities and villages and committed unprecedented atrocities against Soviet citizens. The peoples of the Soviet Union rose to defend their common Motherland and paid an enormous price for peace, freedom, and the right to live on their own land.
On June 17–18, 2026, CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov visited sections of the State Border of the Republic of Belarus with Poland and Lithuania.
On June 18, 2026, the 24th Meeting of the Interstate Commission for Military-Economic Cooperation of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (ICMEC CSTO) was held in Minsk on the sidelines of the 3rd International Security Industry Exhibition “National Security. Belarus 2026”. The meeting was chaired by Dmitry Stefanovich, Head of the Belarusian National Section of the ICMEC and Deputy Chairman of the State Authority for Military Industry of the Republic of Belarus.
On June 18, 2026, the 2nd Military-Economic Conference of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, entitled “Development of Cooperation among the Defense Industries (Military-Industrial Complexes) of the CSTO Member States: 20 Years of Practical Cooperation”, was held in Minsk on the sidelines of the 3rd International Security Industry Exhibition “National Security. Belarus 2026”. The event brought together representatives of relevant ministries, agencies, defense enterprises, and other institutions and organizations of the CSTO member states.
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.
