On July 15, 2026, the High-Level Regional Meeting “Enhancing Capacities to Prevent the Supply of Weapons to Terrorists in Central Asia” was held in Moscow, organized by the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism with the participation of the Russian side.
On July 14, 2026, a working meeting was held at the CSTO Secretariat between CSTO Deputy Secretary General Valery Semerikov and UN Assistant Secretary-General Alexander Zuev.
From July 7 to 9, second staff talks were held in the Russian Federation on the organization and conduct of the CSTO Collective Rapid Reaction Forces (CRRF) command-and-staff exercise “Interaction-2026”, the special reconnaissance exercise “Poisk-2026”, and the logistics support exercise “Echelon-2026”.
In accordance with the 2026 Action Plan of the Coordinating Council of Heads of the Competent Authorities for Countering Illicit Drug Trafficking of the CSTO Member States, and as part of the Russian Federation's priorities during its 2026 CSTO Chairmanship, the sub-regional counter-narcotics operation “Kanal – Amber Coast” was conducted from June 29 to July 3, 2026. The operation was aimed at disrupting trafficking routes for narcotic drugs, their precursors and analogues, new psychoactive substances, and potent substances into the CSTO area of responsibility, neutralizing international transnational drug trafficking groups, dismantling clandestine drug production facilities, undermining the economic foundations of the drug trade, including the laundering of drug proceeds.
A working meeting of the heads of the defense communication management bodies of the CSTO member states was held.
27.07.2023
From 25 to 27 July, the CSTO Joint Staff hosted a working meeting of the heads of defense communication management bodies of the CSTO member states.
The event was attended by representatives of the defense authorities of the Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Russian Federation, the Republic of Tajikistan, the CSTO Joint Staff and the CSTO Secretariat.
Addressing the participants of the working meeting, the Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff, Colonel General Anatoly Sidorov, noted that the most important area of development of the Collective Security Treaty Organization was the improvement of the system of interstate information cooperation and the management system of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces), the technical basis of which was the communications system. He also noted that the experience of the peacekeeping operation in the Republic of Kazakhstan and the annual joint trainings demonstrated the need to coordinate the efforts of the CSTO member states to improve the CSTO communication system.
The CSTO Joint Staff, in cooperation with defense agencies, has developed draft Recommendations on the organization of communications in contingents of CSTO Troops (Collective Forces), which have been tested during joint operational and combat training activities. The document has now undergone internal national co-ordination and will be submitted for approval to the members of the Council of Defense Ministers and the Committee of Secretaries of the CSTO Security Council in November this year.
During the working session, Colonel Vitaly Kenyaykin, Head of the Department for Organisation of Communications and Automated Troop Control Systems at the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces) Planning and Training Centre, made a presentation on the following topic "Perspective image of the CSTO communication system, immediate and future tasks for its formation".
Particular attention was paid to the information provided by the representative of the Russian Federation on the experience of using radio and satellite communications in armed conflicts.
A representative of the Republic of Belarus presented a report on practical ways of implementing possible areas for the development of means of communication in the interests of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces) proposed at the International Military and Scientific Conference in Minsk.
The representative of the Republic of Kazakhstan spoke about the experience of organizing communications and data transmission during the joint training "Interaction-2022" with the CSTO Collective Rapid Reaction Forces. In the course of the discussion of this issue, it was decided to plan the study of issues related to the organization of radio networks for cooperation in contingents of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces) with the participation of radio reconnaissance and electronic warfare forces and means within the framework of the trainings conducted in the CSTO format.
Representatives of the defense agencies of the Republic of Armenia, the Kyrgyz Republic and the Republic of Tajikistan made presentations on improving the technical basis for intergovernmental information interaction.
The participants in the working session also heard a report by a representative of the Marshal of the Soviet Union S.M. Budyonny Military Academy of Communications on the possibility of developing unified standards, protocols and interfaces necessary for the development of advanced means of communication planned for use in contingents of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces).
