During the “Conduct of combat operations” stage, two main training objectives are being practiced: the occupation by the national contingents of the CRDF CAR of the area of responsibility and the destruction of illegal armed formations that have invaded the territory of a CSTO member state.
The active phase of the joint exercise with the Collective Rapid Deployment Forces of the Central Asian Region (CRDF CAR) “Frontier-2026” has begun at the Koktal training range in the Republic of Kazakhstan. During the exercise, the participating forces are practicing the preparation and conduct of combat operations to destroy illegal armed formations that have invaded the territory of a CSTO member state.
On September 11, 2026, a round table entitled “Kazakhstan–Central Asia–Greater Eurasia: resilience and security amid new challenges” was held at the Center for Social Conservative Policy. The event was organized by the CSTO Secretariat jointly with the Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ICCA RAS) and the Center for Social Conservative Policy (CSCP).
The event was attended by CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov, Director of the ICCA RAS Kirill Babaev, members of the CSTO Permanent Council and representatives of the academic and expert communities of the member states. The discussion was moderated by Yuri Shuvalov, Head of the Information and Public Relations Department of the CSTO Secretariat.
Representatives of the national agencies of the CSTO member States have discussed interaction with the CSTO Crisis Response Center
19.03.2022
On March 18, this year, the CSTO Joint Staff held a meeting with representatives of the national agencies of the CSTO member States authorized to cooperate with the CSTO Crisis Response Center.
The Crisis Response Center, located in Moscow, had representatives of the Joint Staff and the Secretariat of the Organization, the Russian Ministry of Defense, the National Defense Management Center of the Russian Federation, the CIS Anti-Terrorist Center, and the Council of the Commanders of the CIS Border Guard Troops.
Heads of the Operational Command Center of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Armenia, Central Command Center of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus, Central Command Center of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Crisis Response Center of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Kyrgyz Republic and Operational Command Center of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Tajikistan participated in the meeting by videoconferencing.
Reports were presented to participants about the military and political situation in the world and the CSTO area of responsibility, modern challenges and terrorist threats in the CIS space, the main directions of improvement of the CSTO crisis response system based on the experience of peacekeeping operations in the Republic of Kazakhstan, as well as on the development of the CSTO communication system in the interests of the crisis responding.
As part of the meeting, representatives of the Scientific and Production Association "Real-Time Software Complexes" presented special software that allows to automate important areas in the work of the CSTO CRC.
The Head of the CSTO Crisis Response Center Major General Arsen Rakhmanov, summing up the event, noted that one of the key priorities during the Republic of Armenia's chairmanship in the Organization was to update crisis response mechanisms, including the organization of constant monitoring of the situation in the Organization's area of responsibility and working out mechanisms of forecasting and prevention of crisis situations.
He also noted that thanks to the active work of the meeting participants it was possible to discuss topical issues of the crisis response system and to outline the main directions of improvement of information interaction in the CSTO format.
