On August 31, 2026, on the sidelines of the SCO Summit in Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic, CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov met with CIS Secretary General Sergey Lebedev.
A meeting of the Working Group of the Coordination Council of Heads of Competent Authorities on Combating Illicit Drug Trafficking (CCHN) on organizing international anti-drug operations within the CSTO framework was held in Aktau, Republic of Kazakhstan.
The Open International Youth Sambo Festival of National Teams of the CSTO Member States was held at the International Sambo Center in Moscow.
On August 17–19, at the invitation of Colonel General Alexander Manilov, Chairman of the Coordination Service of the Council of Border Troops Commanders of the CIS, a delegation of the CSTO Joint Staff headed by Colonel General Andrey Serdyukov took part in international events held in the area of responsibility of the Border Directorate of the Russian Federal Security Service for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region.
On August 14, consultations were held via videoconference at the CSTO Joint Staff with representatives of relevant ministries and agencies of the CSTO member states on organizing joint training activities for command and control bodies and formations of the CSTO collective security system in 2027.
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.
