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 first headquarters negotiations on the preparation and conduct of the Cobalt-2021 tactical-special training with the command and control bodies and special forces of the CSTO CRRF were held
20.05.2021On the basis of the CSTO Crisis Response Center, in the videoconference mode, the first headquarters negotiations were held on the preparation and conduct of the Cobalt-2021 tactical-special trainings with the command and control bodies and special forces of the CSTO CRRF.
The negotiations were attended by representatives of the command and control bodies and formations of the special forces of the Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Russian Federation, the Republic of Tajikistan, as well as the CSTO Secretariat.
In the course of the first headquarters negotiations, the fundamentals of the concept, the place and procedure for the trainings, the composition of the leadership of the trainings and the intermediary apparatus, the national contingents of the CSTO member states involved in the trainings, the timing and procedure for their arrival (departure) in the trainings area, the procedure for deployment and the composition of the Operational Headquarters of the CSTO CRRF special forces for conducting an independent special operation, issues of accommodation, food and comprehensive support for the trainings were considered and agreed.
