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 first stage of the joint Business Game on the assessment of the military-political and strategic situation in the CSTO area of responsibility has begun.
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March 26, this year . In the CSTO Crisis Response Center, under the leadership of the Organization’s Acting Secretary General Valery Semerikov , a joint Business game has been launched to develop solutions aimed at preventing and resolving crisis situations.
Members of the CSTO Secretariat, representatives of the CSTO Joint Staff and operational groups of interested ministries and departments of the Organization's member states take part in the joint business game.
Opening the first stage of the Business Game, the Chief of the Joint Staff of the CSTO, Colonel-General Anatoly Sidorov, noted that the specifics of the conditions for holding the Games are working out crisis response mechanisms simultaneously in several regions of collective security.
The Deputy Secretary General of the Organization, Piotr Tsikhanouski, in turn, stressed that each crisis situation has its own causes, nature and development trends that must be taken into account in order to ensure an effective and timely response to contemporary challenges and threats.
Today, the first stage took place, during which questions on the assessment of the military-political and strategic situation in the CSTO area of responsibility and the preparation of proposals for priority political and diplomatic measures, as well as the use of forces and means of the collective security system in the zone of resolving a crisis situation in the conditional state member of the organization. These measures include including the provision of military, military-technical and humanitarian assistance.
On the basis of the presented analysis of the military-political and military-strategic situation in conditional member states of the Organization, the working groups developed proposals on draft decisions of the CSTO statutory bodies aimed at implementing joint measures to resolve crisis situations. At the same time,
the influence of individual neighboring countries, military-political blocs and alliances on the situation in the collective security regions was taken into account. In addition, questions were worked out on the organization of interaction both between the established groups in the CSTO Crisis Response Center activities, and with the operational groups of the Organization's member states.
