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 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.
