From June 24 to 26, 2026, CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov paid a working visit to the Republic of Tajikistan at the personal invitation of President Emomali Rahmon.
From June 24 to 26, second staff talks were held in the Republic of Kazakhstan on the organization and conduct of the joint exercise “Rubezh-2026” with units of the Central Asian Collective Rapid Deployment Forces (CAR CRDF).
On June 23, 2026, a ceremonial event was held at the Advanced Training Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation to mark the 20th anniversary of the CSTO Collective Security Council's decision granting the Institute the status of the Basic Educational Institution for Continuing Professional Education of law enforcement and special service personnel of the CSTO member states in the fields of counterterrorism, combating extremism, illicit drug trafficking, illegal migration, and other forms of transnational organized crime, as well as for the training of specialists for peacekeeping missions and teaching staff of educational institutions.
85 years ago, the Great Patriotic War began. The war machine of Nazi Germany launched a treacherous attack against Soviet cities and villages and committed unprecedented atrocities against Soviet citizens. The peoples of the Soviet Union rose to defend their common Motherland and paid an enormous price for peace, freedom, and the right to live on their own land.
First consultations of representatives of legal services of foreign ministries of the CSTO member States on legal aspects of the Organization's activities were held
06.09.2022
The CSTO Secretary General Stanislav Zas addressed the participants of the event, noting the symbolism of holding consultations in the year of the 30th anniversary of the signing of the Collective Security Treaty and the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the CSTO. Stanislav Zas stressed that during these years member States established an extensive legal basis for cooperation in all spheres of the Organization's activities, which was based on 60 international agreements, 335 decisions of the Collective Security Council and almost 1.5 thousand legal acts of other CSTO bodies.
In the course of the event, a number of topical international legal issues were considered in order to improve the legal framework for cooperation within the CSTO format. As a result of the consultations, it was recommended to continue the Secretariat's work on the digitalization of the legal and contractual framework for cooperation, as well as to prepare proposals to update the methodological recommendations for drafting international treaties concluded within the framework of the Collective Security Treaty Organization.
