From June 24 to 26, second staff talks were held in the Republic of Kazakhstan on the organization and conduct of the joint exercise “Rubezh-2026” with units of the Central Asian Collective Rapid Deployment Forces (CAR CRDF).
On June 23, 2026, a ceremonial event was held at the Advanced Training Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation to mark the 20th anniversary of the CSTO Collective Security Council's decision granting the Institute the status of the Basic Educational Institution for Continuing Professional Education of law enforcement and special service personnel of the CSTO member states in the fields of counterterrorism, combating extremism, illicit drug trafficking, illegal migration, and other forms of transnational organized crime, as well as for the training of specialists for peacekeeping missions and teaching staff of educational institutions.
85 years ago, the Great Patriotic War began. The war machine of Nazi Germany launched a treacherous attack against Soviet cities and villages and committed unprecedented atrocities against Soviet citizens. The peoples of the Soviet Union rose to defend their common Motherland and paid an enormous price for peace, freedom, and the right to live on their own land.
On June 17–18, 2026, CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov visited sections of the State Border of the Republic of Belarus with Poland and Lithuania.
A task force headed by the Chief of CSTO Joint Staff visited the Tajik-Afghan border section
09.07.2021
On July 8, a task force headed by Colonel General Anatoly Sidorov, Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff, flew over the Tajik-Afghan border.
The task force visited border guard detachment 9 ("Kalay-Khumb"). The group of officers was familiarized on the ground with the order of protection of the Tajik-Afghan border by the military personnel of the Border Troops of the Republic of Tajikistan, staffing of the units with personnel, weapons and special equipment. The order of interaction with units of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Tajikistan allocated to strengthen protection of the state border was studied.
The task force inspected the area of the Tajik border, where the largest number of soldiers of the government troops of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan with weapons (over 200 servicemen) was observed crossing the border from Afghanistan.
Colonel General Anatoly Sidorov, Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff, appreciated the readiness of the Border Troops of the State National Security Committee of the Republic of Tajikistan to provide security on the Tajik-Afghan border.
The visit to the Tajik-Afghan border section allowed the task force to objectively assess the state of affairs on the ground and contributed to the development of objective proposals to reduce tensions on the Tajik-Afghan border and prepare proposals for joint measures in the CSTO format.
