On May 6, 2026, a meeting was held at the CSTO Secretariat between the CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykovand newly appointed Permanent and Plenipotentiary Representative of the Republic of Belarus to the CSTO Vladimir Bespaly.
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 17th meeting of the Working Group under the CSTO Committee of Secretaries of Security Councils on information security was held
17.04.2026
On 17 April 2026, the 17th meeting of the Working Group under the CSTO Committee of Secretaries of Security Councils on information security was held in Moscow, with the participation of delegations of representatives of national coordinating and competent authorities on information security, as well as experts and specialists from relevant national structures and agencies of the Organization’s member states.
The meeting was opened by Aleksandr Kuznetsov, Adviser to the Countering Challenges and Threats Department of the CSTO Secretariat, who addressed the participants.
During the meeting, chaired by Aleksey Ivanov, members of the Working Group under the CSTO Committee of Secretaries of Security Councils on information security, representatives of the delegations of the CSTO member states and the CSTO Secretariat discussed current information security threats and methods of countering them.
The speakers noted a significant increase in the number of attacks, in particular those involving the NFCGate malware, as well as a rise in the number of compromised devices during public and political events. An increase in computer incidents related to contractors and counterparties of enterprises was also highlighted. Particular emphasis was placed on the importance of monitoring protected infrastructure for any suspicious activity.
During the event, the participants exchanged views on current threats and on the issue of promptly communicating information on critical software vulnerabilities to the owners of vulnerable resources and responding to them. They noted the active development of information exchange among specialists of the CCC CSTO contact points, the growing number of joint activities, and the increased speed of response to computer incidents.
The participants expressed their appreciation to the Russian side, which is chairing the Organization, for organizing and holding, on the eve of the CCC CSTO Council meeting, the first specialized forum of the State System for Detection, Prevention and Elimination of Consequences of Computer Attacks (GosSOPKA).
