The active phase of the joint exercise with the Collective Rapid Deployment Forces of the Central Asian Region (CRDF CAR) “Frontier-2026” has begun at the Koktal training range in the Republic of Kazakhstan. During the exercise, the participating forces are practicing the preparation and conduct of combat operations to destroy illegal armed formations that have invaded the territory of a CSTO member state.
On September 11, 2026, a round table entitled “Kazakhstan–Central Asia–Greater Eurasia: resilience and security amid new challenges” was held at the Center for Social Conservative Policy. The event was organized by the CSTO Secretariat jointly with the Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ICCA RAS) and the Center for Social Conservative Policy (CSCP).
The event was attended by CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov, Director of the ICCA RAS Kirill Babaev, members of the CSTO Permanent Council and representatives of the academic and expert communities of the member states. The discussion was moderated by Yuri Shuvalov, Head of the Information and Public Relations Department of the CSTO Secretariat.
On September 4 this year, a round table entitled “CSTO–SCO: Security Space” was held as part of the business program of the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok. CSTO Secretariat representative Igor Panarin took part in the event.
On the XV meeting of the Council of the Collective Security Treaty Organization's Consultative Coordination Center for Responding to Computer Incidents
22.06.2023
On June 20, 2023, in Minsk, the XV meeting of the Collective Security Treaty Organization's Consultative Coordination Center for Responding to Computer Incidents (the CSTO CCC) was held, where delegations of representatives of national authorized bodies for computer incident response of the CSTO member states took part.
The meeting was opened and addressed by the Head of the National Cyber Security Center of the Operational and Analytical Center under the President of the Republic of Belarus, who noted the urgency and complexity of the problems and issues discussed, as well as the need to increase efforts to ensure cyber security and practical cooperation among the CSTO member states.
During the meeting, members of the CSTO CCC Council, participants of delegations of the CSTO member states and the CSTO Secretariat discussed current threats to information security and adequate approaches to identifying and countering them.
Speakers noted the increasing skills of attackers, the massive increase in the number of attacks using the supply chain, the intensive involvement of various cooperating organizations and structures in their implementation.
The participants were particularly concerned about the threats posed by leaks of significant amounts of personal and corporate data.
During the event, the delegates exchanged views on current threats and the problem of prompt information about critical software vulnerabilities to owners of vulnerable resources and how to respond to them.
