28 April marks the Day of the CSTO Joint Staff. It should be recalled that on 28 April 2003, in Dushanbe, the Collective Security Council, guided by the need to establish a military staff body responsible for implementing the military component of the Collective Security Treaty, adopted the Decision “On the Establishment of the Joint Staff of the Collective Security Treaty Organization.”
On 27 April 2026, within the framework of the International Scientific and Practical Conference “Contours of a New Architecture of Collective Security: Current Issues of Information and Analytical Partnership within the CSTO,” held at MGIMO University of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, a round table entitled “Eurasian Analytical Platform: New Approaches in a New Geopolitical Reality” took place. During the event, Head of the Information and Public Relations Department of the CSTO Secretariat Yuriy Shuvalov delivered a presentation on “The Eurasian Analytical Network: A New Cognitive Architecture of Collective Security.”
An operational meeting was held with the Command of the Collective Rapid Deployment Forces of the Central Asian Region
15.09.2025
On 14 September, in the Kyrgyz Republic, at the “Edelweiss” training center, an operational meeting was held with the Command of the Collective Rapid Deployment Forces of the Central Asian Region (CAR CRDF) on the topic “Fundamentals of training and conducting combat operations by the CAR CRDF to destroy illegal armed groups that have invaded the territory of a CSTO member state”.
Representatives of the Central Military District of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and the CSTO Joint Staff briefed participants on the analysis of challenges and threats in the Central Asian region, the state and prospects of development of the military component of the CSTO, practical recommendations on the organization and conduct of combat operations, and current trends in the use of air defense, electronic warfare and UAV forces and means in armed conflicts. Command officers were also briefed on the development of command and control systems, the specifics of the use of engineering forces and means, NBC units, and the organization of technical and logistical support for the CAR CRDF.
The objectives of the meeting were to develop unified approaches to organizing the work of the operational staff of the CAR CRDF Command during the preparation and conduct of combat operations, as well as to coordinate the command and staff of the CAR CRDF ahead of the active phase of the “Rubezh-2025” command and staff training, which will be held on 17-20 September.
Joint press center of the CSTO trainings
