From June 2 to 4, the Republic of Belarus hosted the second staff talks on the organization and conduct of the CSTO Peacekeeping Forces command-and-staff exercise “Indestructible Brotherhood 2026” and the special exercise “Barrier 2026” involving the CSTO Joint CBRN Protection and Medical Support Formation.
On June 3, 2026, a regular meeting of the CSTO Council of Defense Ministers (CDM) was held at the Patriot Central Park of the Russian Ministry of Defense under the chairmanship of the Russian side. The meeting was attended by CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov and Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff Andrey Serdyukov.
From June 1 to 3, Saratov (Russian Federation) is hosting a series of events involving the member states of the Collective Security Treaty Organization aimed at strengthening the collective response system to biological threats.
On June 1, 2026, consultations at the deputy foreign minister level of the CSTO member states were held in Moscow.
On May 28, 2026, CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov took part in the International Security Forum held under the auspices of the Security Council of the Russian Federation. More than 150 delegations from 120 countries participated in the event.
On September 24, a briefing will be held by the Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff, Colonel General Anatoly Sidorov
18.09.2019On September 24, 2019 at 14:00 at the International Press Center of the MIA “Russia Today” (Presidential Hall) a multimedia briefing of the chief of the Joint Staff of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, Colonel General Anatoly Sidorov with video connections to sites in Yerevan, Minsk, Nur-Sultan and Bishkek will take place.
Briefing topic: “On the readiness of command and control bodies and forces of the CSTO collective security system to conduct a joint operational-strategic trainings “Combat Brotherhood-2019”.
The briefing will focus on the military-political situation in the CSTO responsibility zone and on the specifics of the operational and strategic trainings “Combat Brotherhood-2019”, which will be held from October 8 to 29, 2019 in the territory of three countries of the Eastern European and Central-Asian regions.
The trainings will be conducted in accordance with the Plan for the joint training of command and control bodies and forces of the CSTO collective security system for 2019, approved by decisions of the Council of Ministers of Defense and the Committee of Secretaries of Security Councils of the Collective Security Treaty Organization.
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