28 April marks the Day of the CSTO Joint Staff. It should be recalled that on 28 April 2003, in Dushanbe, the Collective Security Council, guided by the need to establish a military staff body responsible for implementing the military component of the Collective Security Treaty, adopted the Decision “On the Establishment of the Joint Staff of the Collective Security Treaty Organization.”
On 27 April 2026, within the framework of the International Scientific and Practical Conference “Contours of a New Architecture of Collective Security: Current Issues of Information and Analytical Partnership within the CSTO,” held at MGIMO University of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, a round table entitled “Eurasian Analytical Platform: New Approaches in a New Geopolitical Reality” took place. During the event, Head of the Information and Public Relations Department of the CSTO Secretariat Yuriy Shuvalov delivered a presentation on “The Eurasian Analytical Network: A New Cognitive Architecture of Collective Security.”
The CSTO Secretary General Imangali Tasmagambetov attended the opening of the “Combat Brotherhood-2023” joint trainings
On 1 September 2023, the CSTO Secretary General Imangali Tasmagambetov, who is on a working visit to the Republic of Belarus, took part in the opening of the joint operational-strategic trainings of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces) "Combat Brotherhood-2023".
Addressing the training participants, the CSTO Secretary General noted the complex international situation against the backdrop of the trainings.
"New sources of tension are emerging in various regions of the world and old conflicts are escalating. Modern crises are increasingly hybrid in nature and require special approaches to their resolution.
The peculiarity of these trainings is their comprehensiveness. Today, the use of a military component is not sufficient for the successful conduct of an operation. A systematic approach is needed, involving close cooperation and collaboration between a whole range of forces and means.
New challenges and security threats have largely determined the format of the upcoming event," the CSTO Secretary General said.
Concluding his speech, Imangali Tasmagambetov expressed his confidence that the strengthening of the Collective Rapid Reaction Forces was the most important condition for protecting the vital security interests of the Organization's member states and for building a system of unified and indivisible security at the region.