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.”
A working visit of the delegation of the CSTO Joint Staff to the Republic of Kazakhstan took place to discuss issues of information interaction between the CSTO Crisis Response Center and Military command authorities of Kazakhstan
14.06.2019
From June 10 to June 13, 2019, a joint working group of representatives of the CSTO Joint Staff and the National Center for Defense Management of the Russian Federation made a working visit to the Republic of Kazakhstan.
During the working meeting, the Central Command Post of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan information interaction between the CSTO Crisis Response Center and the defense authorities of the Organization's member states, as well as the procedure for conducting joint training with duty shifts and other organizational and technical issues were discussed.
The Chief of the Central Command Point of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan Major-General Fazolla Badenov told the event participants about the organization of the duty shift in their daily activities and in the event of crisis situations, as well as about interaction with regional commands.
Deputy Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff Major General Sergey Kuprik noted that the working meeting allowed to discuss actual issues and determine the directions for further work on the development of the system of interstate information interaction within the framework of the CSTO.
