On July 15, 2026, the High-Level Regional Meeting “Enhancing Capacities to Prevent the Supply of Weapons to Terrorists in Central Asia” was held in Moscow, organized by the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism with the participation of the Russian side.
On July 14, 2026, a working meeting was held at the CSTO Secretariat between CSTO Deputy Secretary General Valery Semerikov and UN Assistant Secretary-General Alexander Zuev.
From July 7 to 9, second staff talks were held in the Russian Federation on the organization and conduct of the CSTO Collective Rapid Reaction Forces (CRRF) command-and-staff exercise “Interaction-2026”, the special reconnaissance exercise “Poisk-2026”, and the logistics support exercise “Echelon-2026”.
In accordance with the 2026 Action Plan of the Coordinating Council of Heads of the Competent Authorities for Countering Illicit Drug Trafficking of the CSTO Member States, and as part of the Russian Federation's priorities during its 2026 CSTO Chairmanship, the sub-regional counter-narcotics operation “Kanal – Amber Coast” was conducted from June 29 to July 3, 2026. The operation was aimed at disrupting trafficking routes for narcotic drugs, their precursors and analogues, new psychoactive substances, and potent substances into the CSTO area of responsibility, neutralizing international transnational drug trafficking groups, dismantling clandestine drug production facilities, undermining the economic foundations of the drug trade, including the laundering of drug proceeds.
Press Secretary of the CSTO Secretariat, Doctor of Political Sciences Natalia Kharitonova took part in the 10th Moscow International Scientific and Practical Conference on Political Risks and Forecasting "International Uncertainty 2026," held at MGIMO
11.12.2025
Natalia Kharitonova, Press Secretary of the CSTO Secretariat and Doctor of Political Sciences, participated in the 10th Moscow International Scientific and Practical Conference on Political Risks and Forecasting, "International Uncertainty 2026," held at MGIMO on December 10. At the event, representatives of leading research centers summarized the results of the outgoing international season and discussed the challenges shaping the 2026 agenda.
Natalia Kharitonova delivered a report at the plenary session titled "The CSTO's Place in the Emerging Eurasian Security System," focusing on the CSTO's current information and analytical work, the prospects for Russia's chairmanship of the Organization in 2026, the conceptual foundations for the formation of a new international security system in Eurasia, and the CSTO's place within it.
The plenary session of the conference, "Global Turbulence: Is a New Security Architecture Possible in Eurasia?" was attended by MGIMO Rector and Academician A.V. Torkunov, Vice-Rector for Research A.A. Baykov, Deputy Director of the Foreign Policy Planning Department of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs M.S. Khodynskaya-Golenishcheva, MGIMO Professor and host of the program "The Big Game" on Channel One D. Simes, Professor at the Center for East Asian Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University Shrikant Kondapalli, and Professor at the Institute of International Studies at Fudan University (China) Zhao Huasheng. The session was moderated by A.A. Sush, Dean of the Faculty of International Relations.
Detailed information about the event: https://mgimo.ru/about/news/main/int-uncertainty-2026/
