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 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 the XIX meeting of the Council of the Advisory Coordination Center of the Collective Security Treaty Organization on Computer Incident Response
26.06.2025
On June 19, 2025, in Bosteri, Issyk-Kul region of the Kyrgyz Republic, the XIX meeting of the Council of the Advisory Coordination Center of the Collective Security Treaty Organization on Computer Incident Response (CSTO CCC) was held, which was attended by delegations of representatives of national authorized bodies for responding to computer incidents of the CSTO member states.
Sergey Viktorovich Korelov, Chairman of the Council of the CSTO CCC, opened the meeting and addressed the participants.
During the meeting, members of the Council of the CSTO CCC, members of the delegations of the CSTO member states and the CSTO Secretariat discussed current threats to information security and methods of countering them.
The speakers noted a massive increase in the number of attacks using botnets in their Internet segments; the number of encrypted systems compromised through open RDP services using social engineering techniques; phishing attacks and attacks using supply chains with intensive involvement of various interacting organizations and structures during their implementation. The meeting participants expressed particular concern about the threats associated with the leakage of significant amounts of data from individuals and legal entities.
During the event, delegates exchanged views on current threats and the problem of promptly communicating information about critical software vulnerabilities to owners of vulnerable resources and responding to them. They noted the active development of information exchange activities between the specialists of the CSTO CCC contact points, and an increase in the number of joint events.
They expressed gratitude to the representatives of the Kyrgyz Republic for organizing the meeting and welcoming them.
