28 April marks the Day of the CSTO Joint Staff. It should be recalled that on 28 April 2003, in Dushanbe, the Collective Security Council, guided by the need to establish a military staff body responsible for implementing the military component of the Collective Security Treaty, adopted the Decision “On the Establishment of the Joint Staff of the Collective Security Treaty Organization.”
On 27 April 2026, within the framework of the International Scientific and Practical Conference “Contours of a New Architecture of Collective Security: Current Issues of Information and Analytical Partnership within the CSTO,” held at MGIMO University of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, a round table entitled “Eurasian Analytical Platform: New Approaches in a New Geopolitical Reality” took place. During the event, Head of the Information and Public Relations Department of the CSTO Secretariat Yuriy Shuvalov delivered a presentation on “The Eurasian Analytical Network: A New Cognitive Architecture of Collective Security.”
The Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff took part in a meeting of the heads of the defense committees of the CSTO parliaments
23.10.2025
Today in Dushanbe, at the Parliament of the Republic of Tajikistan, Colonel General Andrei Serdyukov, Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff, delivered a report at a meeting of the Coordination Council of the Chairmen of the Defense and Security Committees (commissions) on defense and security of the parliaments of the CSTO member states under the Council of the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly.
In his speech, Colonel General Andrei Serdyukov noted that, given the dynamics of the military-political situation, the most important priority for the Organization was to conduct high-quality joint operational and combat training activities in order to maintain the readiness of the Collective Forces to respond to crisis situations.
“This year, one of our priority tasks is to work out practical issues related to the organization of management and coordination of the Joint Forces,” Colonel General Andrei Serdyukov said.
The Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff noted that in 2025, prior to the start of joint trainings in the Republic of Belarus, the Kyrgyz Republic, and the Republic of Tajikistan, officers of the Joint Staff conducted instructional and methodological training sessions with trainee officers on the procedure for organizing the management and coordination of Collective Forces group commands, taking into account the experience of the Russian Armed Forces in conducting special military operations.
Colonel General Andrei Serdyukov also briefed the heads of the parliamentary defense committees on the main results of this year's joint trainings and on the planned joint operational and combat training activities for 2026.
The meeting participants discussed a wide range of issues related to interparliamentary cooperation on challenges and threats to national, collective, and regional security.
