From 21 to 25 April this year, the CSTO Secretariat is holding an annual training course for representatives of the CSTO member states without military status.
The meeting was held in the city of Moscow at the CSTO Joint Staff under the chairmanship of Viktor Zinoviev, Secretary of the CSTO Interstate Commission on Military-Economic Cooperation (ICMEC, Commission).
From April 7 to 10, 2025 on the basis of the Park-Hotel “Ognikovo” of Istrinsky district of Moscow region, the XXII International seminar-meeting on complex martial arts with the heads of combat and physical training of power ministries and departments of the CSTO member states took place.
On April 11, 2025, in Dushanbe, the CSTO Secretary General Imangali Tasmagambetov met with the Tajik Defense Minister Emomali Sobirzoda, the Secretary of the Security Council of the Republic of Tajikistan Rahmon Yusuf Ahmadzoda and the First Deputy Chairman - Commander of Border Troops of the State Committee for National Security of Tajikistan Murodali Rajab Rajabzoda.
The CSTO mission advance team led by Colonel General Anatoly Sidorov arrived in the Republic of Armenia
16.09.2022
In accordance with the decision of the extraordinary meeting of the CSTO Collective Security Council, Colonel General Anatoly Sidorov, the advance team of the monitoring mission led by the CSTO Chief of the Joint Staff, arrived in the Republic of Armenia on September 15, 2022.
Immediately upon arrival in Yerevan, the Defense Minister of the Republic of Armenia Suren Papikyan and Colonel General Sidorov had a working meeting to discuss the situation in certain areas on the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
The mission is charged with formulating proposals for de-escalation of tension.
Measures are planned to study and monitor the current situation in certain border regions, as well as working meetings with the leadership of the Armenian Defense Ministry and the General Staff of the Armed Forces, the Russian Embassy in the Republic of Armenia, the border department of the Russian Federal Security Service in the Republic of Armenia and the command of the 102nd Russian military base.
