On June 9, 2026, a delegation of the Secretariat of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, headed by CSTO Deputy Secretary General Valery Semerikov, took part in the 19th Meeting of Heads of Lead Counter-Terrorism Units of the Competent Authorities of the CIS Member States and Heads of National Structures Responsible for Coordinating Counter-Terrorism and Counter-Extremism Activities. The event was organized by the Anti-Terrorism Center of the CIS Member States.
A working meeting between CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov and Director of the Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences Kirill Babaev was held at the Secretariat of the Collective Security Treaty Organization.
From June 2 to 4, the Republic of Belarus hosted the second staff talks on the organization and conduct of the CSTO Peacekeeping Forces command-and-staff exercise “Indestructible Brotherhood 2026” and the special exercise “Barrier 2026” involving the CSTO Joint CBRN Protection and Medical Support Formation.
On June 3, 2026, a regular meeting of the CSTO Council of Defense Ministers (CDM) was held at the Patriot Central Park of the Russian Ministry of Defense under the chairmanship of the Russian side. The meeting was attended by CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov and Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff Andrey Serdyukov.
From June 1 to 3, Saratov (Russian Federation) is hosting a series of events involving the member states of the Collective Security Treaty Organization aimed at strengthening the collective response system to biological threats.
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.
