On October 30, 2026, the results of the “Channel-Caspian Lighthouse” subregional anti-drug operation were summed up as part of the implementation of the 2026 Plan of Key Activities of the Coordinating Council of Heads of Competent Drug Control Authorities of CSTO Member States (CCHCDCA).
From October 18 to 23 this year, in accordance with the 2026 Plan for the Joint Training of Command and Control Bodies and Formations of Forces and Assets of the Collective Security System of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, the “Cobalt-2026” special exercise was held at the Magob training range of the Special Purpose Units Training Center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Tajikistan.
An international scientific and practical conference entitled “Greater Eurasia: Institutions, Development, Cooperation” was held at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, jointly organized with the Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ICCA RAS). CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov took part in the conference.
A working meeting between CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov and Kazem Jalali, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the Russian Federation, was held at the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the Russian Federation.
An international scientific and practical conference entitled “Transformation of the Global Security System and the Shaping of a Eurasian Security Framework” was held at Moscow State Linguistic University (MSLU).
The ХVIII meeting of the CSTO Interstate Commission on Military-Economic Cooperation was held via videoconferencing on November 27, 2020
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The meeting, which was held for the first time via videoconferencing using the capabilities of the CSTO Crisis Response Center, was chaired by the Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, Chairman of the Interstate Commission on Military-Economic Cooperation Yuri Borisov with the participation of all heads of the national parts of the Commission. The CSTO Deputy Secretary General Valery Semerikov took part in the meeting of the Commission.
The meeting participants considered the results of the activities of the Commission on the Implementation of the Decisions of the ХVII Interstate Commission on Military-Economic Cooperation meeting, which took place in Yerevan (Republic of Armenia) in September last year. Following the discussion of the Agenda issues, decisions were made on the further development of multilateral engagement in the field of military-economic cooperation within the CSTO.
In particular, these decisions reflected the issues of organizing and conducting joint research and development work on the development and modernization of military products, the implementation of joint measures in the field of diversification of products of national enterprises and organizations of defense-industrial (military-industrial) complexes of the CSTO member states.
The Commission approved new candidates for the heads and composition of the coordination councils and working groups operating under the Commission, including the Chairman of the Business Council and his First Deputy. Alexander Nozdrachev was unanimously approved as the Chairman of the Business Council for the next three-year term.
The members of the Commission also approved Work Plan for 2021 of the Interstate Commission on Military-Economic Cooperation. It was decided to hold the next meeting of the Commission in the Republic of Belarus in September 2021.
