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.”
The CSTO Working Group at the CSTO CMD has discussed electronic warfare in Minsk
07.06.2023
On June 7, this year, a regular meeting of the CSTO Working Group on electronic warfare chaired by Lieutenant General Yuri Lastochkin, the Chief of the electronic warfare forces of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, was held in Minsk.
The meeting was attended by the heads of military administrative bodies of the armed forces of the CSTO member states, responsible for the organization of electronic warfare in the national armed forces, and representatives of the CSTO Joint Staff headed by Lieutenant General Anatoly Yakovlev, Head of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces) Planning Department.
The meeting participants have considered issues of application of electronic warfare forces and facilities in modern armed conflicts, ensuring electromagnetic compatibility of radio-electronic means of the national armed forces.
Taking into account the importance of the issues discussed, Major General Viktor Gulevich, Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces - First Deputy Minister of Defense of the Republic of Belarus - took part in the meeting. In particular, he noted that "radioelectronic warfare in the conditions of modern confrontation is the most effective and quickly realizable means of neutralizing technical advantages of the opposing side in troop management”. He also supported the need for practical work on electronic warfare during joint operational and combat training with components of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces).
