On May 28, 2026, CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov took part in the International Security Forum held under the auspices of the Security Council of the Russian Federation. More than 150 delegations from 120 countries participated in the event.
On May 26 of this year, a round table entitled “35 Years of the Commonwealth of Independent States: Results, Tasks, and Prospects” was held at the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation. The event was attended by heads of integration structures in the post-Soviet space, representatives of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as well as representatives of the embassies of CIS countries in Russia. Opening remarks were delivered by the moderator, Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on International Affairs Grigory Karasin.
On May 26, 2026, a regular meeting of the CSTO Committee of Secretaries of Security Councils (CSSC) was held in Moscow under the chairmanship of the Russian side, with the participation of CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov. The participants conducted a substantive exchange of views on issues related to strengthening security in the CSTO area of responsibility.
On May 25, 2026, a meeting was held at the CSTO Secretariat between CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov, CSTO Deputy Secretary General Valery Semerikov, and Acting Director of the African Union Counter-Terrorism Centre Idriss Mounir Lallali.
On May 25, 2026, a meeting took place at the Secretariat of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) between CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov and the Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the Russian Federation, Kazem Jalali.
Heads of military-medical services have discussed the medical support of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces)
21.04.2023
On April 19-21, 2023, in Minsk, a working meeting of representatives of medical services of defense agencies of the CSTO member states was held.
The participants of the working meeting paid particular attention to discussing common approaches to first aid and the formation of standards for first aid in the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces), taking into account the national legislations of the CSTO member states.
They have discussed the standardization of certain areas of medical support, the formation of a system of remote telemedicine consultations to provide assistance to medical specialists of the main (central) military-medical organizations of the CSTO member states.
An exchange of views took place on issues of medical support for joint (special) trainings held in the Republic of Kazakhstan in 2022 and medical support for planned joint trainings with the CSTO Collective Forces this year.
At the end of the event, the heads of the military medical services outlined ways to improve and develop cooperation on medical support for the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces).
Presentations were made by Colonel Alexander Malyukh, Head of the Military Medical Department of the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Belarus; Colonel Yerzhan Smaiyl, Head of the Chief Military Medical Department of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan; Amanbai Matisakov, Head of the Military Medical Department of the Ministry of Defense of the Kyrgyz Republic, Colonel of Medical Service; Oleg Kalachev, Head of the Department - Deputy Head of the Main Military Medical Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, Major General of Medical Service, and Colonel Ivan Pchelnikov, Head of Medical Service of the CSTO Joint Staff.
Within the framework of the working meeting, at the invitation of the Minister of Health of the Republic of Belarus Dmitry Pinevich, the participants visited the exhibition of pharmaceutical industry samples and production workshops of the Republican Unitary Production Enterprise "Belmedpreparaty”.
