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 June 1, 2026, consultations at the deputy foreign minister level of the CSTO member states were held in Moscow.
On May 28, 2026, CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov took part in the International Security Forum held under the auspices of the Security Council of the Russian Federation. More than 150 delegations from 120 countries participated 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.
