From June 24 to 26, second staff talks were held in the Republic of Kazakhstan on the organization and conduct of the joint exercise “Rubezh-2026” with units of the Central Asian Collective Rapid Deployment Forces (CAR CRDF).
On June 23, 2026, a ceremonial event was held at the Advanced Training Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation to mark the 20th anniversary of the CSTO Collective Security Council's decision granting the Institute the status of the Basic Educational Institution for Continuing Professional Education of law enforcement and special service personnel of the CSTO member states in the fields of counterterrorism, combating extremism, illicit drug trafficking, illegal migration, and other forms of transnational organized crime, as well as for the training of specialists for peacekeeping missions and teaching staff of educational institutions.
85 years ago, the Great Patriotic War began. The war machine of Nazi Germany launched a treacherous attack against Soviet cities and villages and committed unprecedented atrocities against Soviet citizens. The peoples of the Soviet Union rose to defend their common Motherland and paid an enormous price for peace, freedom, and the right to live on their own land.
On June 17–18, 2026, CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov visited sections of the State Border of the Republic of Belarus with Poland and Lithuania.
The CSTO Acting Secretary General Valery Semerikov will take part at the plenary session of the Forum for Security Cooperation of the OSCE
15.07.2019On July 17, this year, the CSTO Acting Secretary General Valery Semerikov will be the keynote speaker at the plenary session of the Forum for Security Cooperation of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe on the theme “The CSTO activities in support of OSCE commitments to ensure military-political aspects of security”.
The upcoming meeting is initiated by the currently chairing the Forum of the Republic of Tajikistan, which motivated its invitation to the keynote speaker that “the CSTO plays a crucial role in maintaining close cooperation and understanding in the military-political field in its region of responsibility”.
The meeting will be held in Vienna at the Hofburg Palace.
The Forum for Security Cooperation (FSC) was established in 1992 by the decision of the Helsinki meeting of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe. It is an independent OSCE body with the authority to discuss military-political issues, including disarmament, arms control, confidence-building measures and take politically binding decisions on them. The Forum meets in Vienna weekly at the level of state representatives.
