On July 15, 2026, the High-Level Regional Meeting “Enhancing Capacities to Prevent the Supply of Weapons to Terrorists in Central Asia” was held in Moscow, organized by the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism with the participation of the Russian side.
On July 14, 2026, a working meeting was held at the CSTO Secretariat between CSTO Deputy Secretary General Valery Semerikov and UN Assistant Secretary-General Alexander Zuev.
From July 7 to 9, second staff talks were held in the Russian Federation on the organization and conduct of the CSTO Collective Rapid Reaction Forces (CRRF) command-and-staff exercise “Interaction-2026”, the special reconnaissance exercise “Poisk-2026”, and the logistics support exercise “Echelon-2026”.
In accordance with the 2026 Action Plan of the Coordinating Council of Heads of the Competent Authorities for Countering Illicit Drug Trafficking of the CSTO Member States, and as part of the Russian Federation's priorities during its 2026 CSTO Chairmanship, the sub-regional counter-narcotics operation “Kanal – Amber Coast” was conducted from June 29 to July 3, 2026. The operation was aimed at disrupting trafficking routes for narcotic drugs, their precursors and analogues, new psychoactive substances, and potent substances into the CSTO area of responsibility, neutralizing international transnational drug trafficking groups, dismantling clandestine drug production facilities, undermining the economic foundations of the drug trade, including the laundering of drug proceeds.
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.
