The Open International Youth Sambo Festival of National Teams of the CSTO Member States was held at the International Sambo Center in Moscow.
On August 17–19, at the invitation of Colonel General Alexander Manilov, Chairman of the Coordination Service of the Council of Border Troops Commanders of the CIS, a delegation of the CSTO Joint Staff headed by Colonel General Andrey Serdyukov took part in international events held in the area of responsibility of the Border Directorate of the Russian Federal Security Service for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region.
On August 14, consultations were held via videoconference at the CSTO Joint Staff with representatives of relevant ministries and agencies of the CSTO member states on organizing joint training activities for command and control bodies and formations of the CSTO collective security system in 2027.
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.
A commemorable banner for the 75th anniversary of the Great Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 was installed in Moscow on Leningradsky Prospekt, 41, where the CSTO Joint Staff is currently located
08.05.2020
The commemorable banner for the 75th anniversary of the Great Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 was installed by the CSTO in Moscow on Leningradsky Prospekt. In this Moscow district, the “Act on Unconditional Surrender of Germany” was delivered 75 years ago from the capital of defeated fascist Germany.
On May 8, 1945, the military transport aircraft Li-2, which headed for Berlin, took off from the Central Aerodrome named after M. V. Frunze (currently the territory limited by Leningradsky Prospekt and Khoroshevsky Roadway).
On May 9, at 4 a.m., Li-2 aircraft captain, wing commander Aleksey Semenkov, received a packet sealed by wax seaboard and his crew performed a particularly important historical flight: they delivered the “Act on Unconditional Surrender of Germany” from Berlin to Moscow.
On the same day in the afternoon, the Act was received by the USSR Commander-in Chief Joseph Stalin.
Currently, the International Military Center is located in the building of the former airport of the Central Airdrome named after M. V. Frunze. In this center, in accordance with international agreements, the CSTO Joint Staff and the Secretariat of the Council of Defense Ministers of the CIS are stationed.
