On July 4, 2025, a delegation of the CSTO Secretariat visited the Central Military-Patriotic Park of Culture and Recreation of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation "Patriot".
The Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov received the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the CSTO member states and the Secretary General of the Organization in Cholpon-Ata on June 30. The meeting was attended by the Foreign Ministers of Kyrgyzstan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia and Tajikistan.
On June 30, 2025, a regular meeting of the CSTO Council of Foreign Ministers was held in Cholpon-Ata (the Kyrgyz Republic) under the chairmanship of the Kyrgyz side, which was attended by the Organization's Secretary General Imangali Tasmagambetov.
Safar Umarzoda, Head of the Department for Countering Challenges and Threats of the CSTO Secretariat, took part in a special event (side-event) on "Countering Radicalization leading to terrorism and Extremism" organized by the Russian Federation on the margins of the OSCE Annual Conference on Security Review, where he reported on the measures taken by the CSTO on countering terrorism and extremism, and willingness to share the experience gained.
Yuri Chikhanchin, the Head of Rosfinmonitoring, and Imangali Tasmagambetov, the CSTO Secretary General, have discussed problems, related to the prevention of crime
06.03.2023
On March 6 this year, in Moscow, the CSTO Secretary General Imangali Tasmagambetov met with the Director of the Federal Financial Monitoring Service, Yuri Chikhanchin.
Y.Chikhanchin and I.Tasmagambetov have discussed international cooperation in combating trans-border crime, including the financing of terrorism and extremism, money laundering, illegal migration, cybercrime and drug trafficking.
It was noted that the CSTO, together with the Eurasian Group on Combating Money Laundering and Financing of Terrorism and the Council of Heads of Financial Intelligence Units of the member states of the Commonwealth of Independent States made a significant contribution to combating illicit manifestations at the supranational level.
"The Council brings together the efforts of the CIS financial intelligence units to integrate with the activities of the CSTO in order to increase the effectiveness of the implementation of the anti-drug operation “Channel”. Last year alone, Rosfinmonitoring's analysts detected financial transactions, presumably connected with the legalization of drug proceeds, worth more than 280 million rubles," Yuri Chikhanchin noted.
Imangali Tasmagambetov noted the fruitful joint work of the CSTO and Rosfinmonitoring, aimed at combating crimes in the field of high technology, ensuring information security of the CSTO member states. "According to the results of combating money laundering, more than 950 information resources were suspended in 2022 and more than a thousand criminal cases were initiated", - the CSTO Secretary General noted.
The Director of the Federal Financial Monitoring Service and the CSTO Secretary General expressed confidence that the relationship between the Federal Financial Monitoring Service and the CSTO would continue to be based on a constructive, trusting dialogue and aim at expanding the scope of joint work.
