12.04.2024

The 23rd meeting of the Military Committee on military cooperation development among the CSTO member states under the supervision of the Chairman of the Military Committee, Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation - First Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, Army General Valery Gerasimov, took place today via videoconferencing.


12.04.2024

From April 8 to 11, 2024, the XXI International Seminar-Meeting on Combined Martial Arts with the heads of combat and physical training of the security ministries and agencies of the CSTO member states took place at the Park Hotel "Horizon", Odintsovo District, Moscow Region.

The event was addressed by Gennady Troislit, the Deputy Head of the Organizational and Planning Department of the CSTO Secretariat, and Oleg Ufimtsev, the President of the Russian Federation of Combined Martial Arts.


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

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.


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