On September 1, 2026, CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov and UN Secretary-General António Guterres held a working meeting in Bishkek in the SCO+ format.
On August 31, 2026, on the sidelines of the SCO Summit in Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic, CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov met with CIS Secretary General Sergey Lebedev.
A meeting of the Working Group of the Coordination Council of Heads of Competent Authorities on Combating Illicit Drug Trafficking (CCHN) on organizing international anti-drug operations within the CSTO framework was held in Aktau, Republic of Kazakhstan.
The Open International Youth Sambo Festival of National Teams of the CSTO Member States was held at the International Sambo Center in Moscow.
On August 17–19, at the invitation of Colonel General Alexander Manilov, Chairman of the Coordination Service of the Council of Border Troops Commanders of the CIS, a delegation of the CSTO Joint Staff headed by Colonel General Andrey Serdyukov took part in international events held in the area of responsibility of the Border Directorate of the Russian Federal Security Service for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region.
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.
26.03.2019
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.
