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.
On June 18, 2026, the 24th Meeting of the Interstate Commission for Military-Economic Cooperation of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (ICMEC CSTO) was held in Minsk on the sidelines of the 3rd International Security Industry Exhibition “National Security. Belarus 2026”. The meeting was chaired by Dmitry Stefanovich, Head of the Belarusian National Section of the ICMEC and Deputy Chairman of the State Authority for Military Industry of the Republic of Belarus.
On June 18, 2026, the 2nd Military-Economic Conference of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, entitled “Development of Cooperation among the Defense Industries (Military-Industrial Complexes) of the CSTO Member States: 20 Years of Practical Cooperation”, was held in Minsk on the sidelines of the 3rd International Security Industry Exhibition “National Security. Belarus 2026”. The event brought together representatives of relevant ministries, agencies, defense enterprises, and other institutions and organizations of the CSTO member states.
The Chiefs of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the CSTO member states will discuss development of military cooperation
08.11.2022
On November 10 this year, a meeting of the CSTO Military Committee will be held via videoconferencing to discuss the development of military cooperation among the Collective Security Treaty Organization member states. The event will be chaired by the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation – the First Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, Army General Valery Gerasimov.
The meeting will be attended by the Chiefs of General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Republic of Tajikistan, Colonel General Anatoly Sidorov, Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff, as well as the CSTO Deputy Secretary General Takhir Khairulloyev.
In the course of the meeting It is planned to discuss challenges and threats to military security in the regions of the CSTO collective security and measures to counter them, development of the CSTO peacekeeping potential, including inclusion in the UN peacekeeping activities, improvement of the organization and provision of international flights of state (military) aviation of the CSTO member states, and a number of other topical issues.
