An international scientific and practical conference entitled “The Situation in the Middle East, North Africa and the Sahara-Sahel Region: Development Forecasts for 2027” was held in Moscow, organized by the Center for Scientific and Analytical Information of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
On October 18, 2026, the “Cobalt-2026” special exercise opened in the Republic of Tajikistan, in accordance with the 2026 Plan for the Joint Training of Command and Control Bodies and Formations of Forces and Assets of the CSTO Collective Security System. The exercise involves special units of internal affairs and national security agencies, internal troops (National Guard), special services and anti-drug agencies, as well as rescue units incorporated into the Special Purpose Forces formations of the CSTO Collective Operational Reaction Forces (CORF).
From October 13 to 16, 2025, the 23rd International Combat Sambo Tournament for the Cup of the Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, featuring law enforcement personnel from CSTO member states, was held at the Ognikovo Park Hotel (19 Ognikovo, Istra District, Moscow Region).
Today, the final stages of the command-and-staff exercise with the CSTO Peacekeeping Forces “Indestructible Brotherhood-2026” and the special exercise with the CSTO joint NBC protection and medical support formation “Barrier-2026” took place at the Losvido and Starodorozhsky training ranges in the Republic of Belarus.
On October 15–16, a CSTO, CIS and SCO conference on security issues in Central Asia and Afghanistan was held in Moscow as part of Russia’s CSTO chairmanship programme.
Meeting of the Working Group on Afghanistan under the CSTO Ministerial Council was held
03.02.2021
On February 2, 2021, a regular meeting of the Working Group on Afghanistan under the CSTO Ministerial Council was held via videoconferencing, The national coordinators of the CSTO member states for Afghanistan, the Deputy Secretary General of the CSTO Takhir Khayrulloyev and the representative of the Afghan Embassy in Moscow took part in the meeting.
The meeting discussed issues related to the military-political situation in Afghanistan. They considered the risks coming from the territory of Afghanistan for the neighboring states of Central Asia and methods of countering the challenges and threats emanating from there.
The results of the Group's work for the second half of 2020 were summed up and the Working Plan of the CSTO Ministerial Council for the first half of 2021 was adopted.
