On May 19, 2026, Acting CSTO Deputy Secretary General Samat Ordabayev met in Vienna with Director of the Division for Operations of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Bo Mathiasen.
On May 19, 2026, an international round table on the topic “CSTO: together for strengthening international peace and stability” was held at the Hofburg Palace in Vienna, Austria, on the sidelines of the OSCE Forum for Security Co-operation in Europe.
On May 18, CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov, together with the heads of the diplomatic missions of the CSTO member states in Vienna, took part in a solemn wreath and flower-laying ceremony at the monument to the Soviet Liberator Soldier at Schwarzenbergplatz.
On May 18, 2026, a meeting was held in Vienna between Acting CSTO Deputy Secretary General Samat Ordabayev and Coordinator of the Transnational Threats Department of the OSCE Secretariat Elena Kupchina.
On May 18, 2026, a meeting was held in Vienna between the CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov and OSCE Secretary General Feridun Sinirlioğlu.
CSTO Parliamentary Assembly elected Vyacheslav Volodin as Chairman for three years - RIA Novosti
05.11.201905.11.2019

© RIA Novosti / Evgeny Biyatov
Go to the photobank
Chairman of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Vyacheslav Volodin. Archive photo
YEREVAN, November 5 - RIA Novosti. State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin was elected Chairman of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (The CSTO PA) for the next three years.
Such a decision was made during the plenary meeting of the assembly, which takes place on Tuesday, November 5, at the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Armenia.
Earlier, the speaker of the parliament of the Kyrgyz Republic (Jogorku Kenesh) Dastanbek Dzhumabekov made a proposal to nominate Volodin for this position during a meeting of the Assembly Council.