The 12th Southern Information Security Forum “Infoforum Sochi 2026” is taking place in Sochi, Russia, from June 30 to July 3. On July 1, the Forum's plenary session brought together representatives of federal and regional authorities, regulatory bodies, leading companies, and international organizations to discuss current challenges in the protection of critical infrastructure, the development of artificial intelligence, and international cooperation.
On June 30 – July 1, 2026, Saint Petersburg hosted a series of events chaired by Alexander Kurenkov, Minister of the Russian Federation for Civil Defence, Emergencies and Elimination of Consequences of Natural Disasters, with the participation of heads of the competent authorities of the CSTO member states responsible for emergency prevention and response.
From June 24 to 26, 2026, CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov paid a working visit to the Republic of Tajikistan at the personal invitation of President Emomali Rahmon.
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).
The CSTO Coordinating Council on Combating Illegal Migration has discussed the results of operation “Illegal-2022”
06.12.2022
On December 6 this year, in Yerevan, a meeting of the Coordinating Council of the Heads of the Competent Authorities of the CSTO Member States on Combating Illegal Migration (CCCIM) was held.
Delegations from the CSTO member states and the CSTO Secretariat participated in the meeting. The members of the CCCIM have discussed the state of the migration situation and changes in the migration legislation in the CSTO member states, praised the effectiveness of measures to counter illegal migration, in particular the CSTO operation "Illegal-2022", and summarized the results of the operation.
Also, the Russian side provided information on the humanitarian work carried out by Russia with regard to citizens arriving from the territory of Ukraine.
The CCCIM members heard a report from the Kazakh side on digitalization in the migration service of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
As a result of the CCCIM meeting it was decided to hold the next meeting in the second half of 2023 in the Republic of Belarus, the presidency of the CSTO in 2023.
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