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.
On July 14, 2026, a working meeting was held at the CSTO Secretariat between CSTO Deputy Secretary General Valery Semerikov and UN Assistant Secretary-General Alexander Zuev.
From July 7 to 9, second staff talks were held in the Russian Federation on the organization and conduct of the CSTO Collective Rapid Reaction Forces (CRRF) command-and-staff exercise “Interaction-2026”, the special reconnaissance exercise “Poisk-2026”, and the logistics support exercise “Echelon-2026”.
In accordance with the 2026 Action Plan of the Coordinating Council of Heads of the Competent Authorities for Countering Illicit Drug Trafficking of the CSTO Member States, and as part of the Russian Federation's priorities during its 2026 CSTO Chairmanship, the sub-regional counter-narcotics operation “Kanal – Amber Coast” was conducted from June 29 to July 3, 2026. The operation was aimed at disrupting trafficking routes for narcotic drugs, their precursors and analogues, new psychoactive substances, and potent substances into the CSTO area of responsibility, neutralizing international transnational drug trafficking groups, dismantling clandestine drug production facilities, undermining the economic foundations of the drug trade, including the laundering of drug proceeds.
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.
