The Open International Youth Sambo Festival of National Teams of the CSTO Member States was held at the International Sambo Center in Moscow.
On August 17–19, at the invitation of Colonel General Alexander Manilov, Chairman of the Coordination Service of the Council of Border Troops Commanders of the CIS, a delegation of the CSTO Joint Staff headed by Colonel General Andrey Serdyukov took part in international events held in the area of responsibility of the Border Directorate of the Russian Federal Security Service for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region.
On August 14, consultations were held via videoconference at the CSTO Joint Staff with representatives of relevant ministries and agencies of the CSTO member states on organizing joint training activities for command and control bodies and formations of the CSTO collective security system in 2027.
On July 15, 2026, the High-Level Regional Meeting “Enhancing Capacities to Prevent the Supply of Weapons to Terrorists in Central Asia” was held in Moscow, organized by the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism with the participation of the Russian side.
The CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov took part in a wreath and flower-laying ceremony at the monument to the Soviet soldier in Vienna
18.05.2026
On May 18, CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov, together with the heads of the diplomatic missions of the CSTO member states in Vienna, took part in a solemn wreath and flower-laying ceremony at the monument to the Soviet Liberator Soldier at Schwarzenbergplatz.
The ceremony was also attended by Chairman of the CSTO Permanent Council and Permanent and Plenipotentiary Representative of Russia to the Organization Viktor Vasilyev, Acting CSTO Deputy Secretary General Samat Ordabayev, and Deputy Head of the Political Cooperation Department of the CSTO Secretariat Sergey Koshelev.
Representing Russian foreign institutions in Vienna were Ambassador to Austria Andrey Grozov, Permanent Representative to the OSCE Dmitry Polyanskiy, Head of the Russian Delegation at the Vienna negotiations on military security and arms control Yulia Zhdanova, and Deputy Permanent Representative of Russia to the international organizations in Vienna Roman Ustinov.
