On 17 April 2026, a working meeting was held at the CSTO Secretariat between Acting CSTO Deputy Secretary General Samat Ordabaev and the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Central Asia, Head of the United Nations Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia (UNRCCA), Kaha Imnadze.
On 17 April 2026, the 17th meeting of the Working Group under the CSTO Committee of Secretaries of Security Councils on information security was held in Moscow, with the participation of delegations of representatives of national coordinating and competent authorities on information security, as well as experts and specialists from relevant national structures and agencies of the Organization’s member states.
On 16 April 2026, the 21st meeting of the Council of the CSTO Consultative Coordination Center for Computer Incident Response (CCC CSTO) was held in Moscow, with the participation of delegations of representatives of national competent authorities for computer incident response of the Organization’s member states, as well as a delegation of the CSTO Secretariat headed by Umarzoda Umar Safar, Head of the Countering Challenges and Threats Department of the CSTO Secretariat.
On 17 April, the annual training courses for representatives of the CSTO member states who do not have the status of military personnel were completed at the CSTO Secretariat.
On 15 April 2026, a meeting was held in Bishkek between CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov and President of the Kyrgyz Republic Sadyr Japarov.
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/
