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.
On September 4 this year, a round table entitled “CSTO–SCO: Security Space” was held as part of the business program of the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok. CSTO Secretariat representative Igor Panarin took part in the event.
Representatives of the defense departments discussed issues of improving the joint training of command and control bodies and forces of the forces and means of a collective security system of the Collective Security Treaty Organization
05.03.2020
On March 3 - 5, consultations were held at the Joint Staff of the Collective Security Treaty Organization on improving the joint training of command and the forces and means of a collective security system of the Collective Security Treaty Organization and a working meeting of representatives of the defense departments of the CSTO member states on organizing events in this area in 2020.
Representatives of the defense departments of the Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan (via videoconferencing), the Kyrgyz Republic, the Russian Federation, the Republic of Tajikistan, the Secretariat and the Joint Staff of the Collective Security Treaty Organization took part in the event under the overall leadership of the First Deputy Head of the CSTO Joint Staff.
During the event, taking into account the proposals of the representatives of the defense departments of the CSTO member states, the sides discussed and agreed on improving joint training, conducting strategic command post training and first staff negotiations on organizing and conducting joint trainings with the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces) in 2020.
To all parties in the development of the intentions of the special exercises Echelon 2020 and Search 2020, the command and staff exercise Interaction 2020, the joint exercise Frontier 2020 and the command and staff exercise Unbreakable Brotherhood 2020, should be taken as the basis Plan of the operational-strategic task developed by the CSTO Joint Staff for conducting joint operational and combat training of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces) in 2020.
The participants in the working meeting discussed participation in joint exercises conducted with the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces), representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross, the Republic of Serbia, the Republic of Uzbekistan, as well as the border services of the competent authorities of the CSTO member states.
As a result of consultations and a working meeting, agreements were reached, in particular, on the inclusion of representatives of the Republic of Serbia in the composition of the participants in the command-and-staff exercise "Indestructible Brotherhood 2020". The participation of representatives of the Republic of Uzbekistan as observers in the joint training “Frontier 2020” was approved.
