An international scientific and practical conference entitled “The Situation in the Middle East, North Africa and the Sahara-Sahel Region: Development Forecasts for 2027” was held in Moscow, organized by the Center for Scientific and Analytical Information of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
On October 18, 2026, the “Cobalt-2026” special exercise opened in the Republic of Tajikistan, in accordance with the 2026 Plan for the Joint Training of Command and Control Bodies and Formations of Forces and Assets of the CSTO Collective Security System. The exercise involves special units of internal affairs and national security agencies, internal troops (National Guard), special services and anti-drug agencies, as well as rescue units incorporated into the Special Purpose Forces formations of the CSTO Collective Operational Reaction Forces (CORF).
From October 13 to 16, 2025, the 23rd International Combat Sambo Tournament for the Cup of the Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, featuring law enforcement personnel from CSTO member states, was held at the Ognikovo Park Hotel (19 Ognikovo, Istra District, Moscow Region).
Today, the final stages of the command-and-staff exercise with the CSTO Peacekeeping Forces “Indestructible Brotherhood-2026” and the special exercise with the CSTO joint NBC protection and medical support formation “Barrier-2026” took place at the Losvido and Starodorozhsky training ranges in the Republic of Belarus.
On October 15–16, a CSTO, CIS and SCO conference on security issues in Central Asia and Afghanistan was held in Moscow as part of Russia’s CSTO chairmanship programme.
The CSTO Collective Forces are practicing the tasks of the next stage of CSTO trainings in the Republic of Kazakhstan
04.10.2022
The CSTO Collective Forces continue to work on the next stage of CSTO trainings in the Republic of Kazakhstan.
The command and staff training with the CSTO Collective Rapid Reaction Forces "Interaction-2022" is aimed at practicing the tasks of using forces and means of the CSTO collective security system in the Central Asian region of the CSTO collective security.
In the course of practical actions, the following training issues and joint tactical tasks are practiced:
defeating the enemy with the use of reconnaissance and reconnaissance-fire contour;
conducting special activities to eliminate an illegal armed formation in a populated area;
actions of anti-drug units of the internal affairs bodies of the formations of special forces to suppress the channel for the supply of narcotic drugs;
implementation of measures to eliminate the consequences of chemical and biological contamination and search and rescue operations.
During a Special training with reconnaissance forces "Search-2022" the issues of planning reconnaissance in conditions of aggravation of military and political situation in the Central Asian region of CSTO collective security, as well as the organization and conduct of various types of reconnaissance in the interests of application of the CSTO CRRF during localization of cross-border armed conflict are practiced.
The special training "Echelon-2022" with the forces and means of Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics support of the CSTO forces (Collective Forces) is aimed at comprehensive training on the organization of Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics support, management of logistics units of the CSTO CRRF, replenishment of inventories and restoration of military and technical equipment of the CSTO CRRF group during the conduct of a joint operation.
The CSTO training is examining the use of the Coalition air grouping and air defense, as well as the use of the joint CSTO NBC defense formation and medical support.
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Joint press center of the CSTO trainings
