The 12th Southern Information Security Forum “Infoforum Sochi 2026” is taking place in Sochi, Russia, from June 30 to July 3. On July 1, the Forum's plenary session brought together representatives of federal and regional authorities, regulatory bodies, leading companies, and international organizations to discuss current challenges in the protection of critical infrastructure, the development of artificial intelligence, and international cooperation.
On June 30 – July 1, 2026, Saint Petersburg hosted a series of events chaired by Alexander Kurenkov, Minister of the Russian Federation for Civil Defence, Emergencies and Elimination of Consequences of Natural Disasters, with the participation of heads of the competent authorities of the CSTO member states responsible for emergency prevention and response.
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).
A meeting of the CSTO Defense Ministers Council Working Group on the Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics of the CSTO Collective Forces was held
24.11.2021
On November 23, this year, a meeting of the CSTO Defense Ministers Council Working Group on the Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces) was held via videoconferencing.
The meeting was attended by representatives of the Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics management bodies of the defense departments of the CSTO member States and Colonel General Anatoly Sidorov, Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff.
In the course of the meeting the issues of internal approval of the draft Provisions on material reserves to support the formations of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces), maintenance and updating of material reserves in the CSTO member States for the formations of the Central Asian region Collective Rapid Deployment Forces (CAR CRDF) and the CSTO Collective Rapid Reaction Forces (CSTO CRRF), as well as the procedure for transportation of personnel, weapons and military equipment of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces) from one CSTO member State to another in an attack on the sovereignty and territorial integrity of a CSTO member State were considered.
The results of a special training with the assets of the Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces) "Echelon-2021", as well as the organization issues of training "Echelon-2022", planned in 2022 in the Republic of Kazakhstan have been discussed.
Particular attention was paid to the report by Colonel Dayyrkul uulu Aibek, head of the Main Logistics Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of the Kyrgyz Republic, on efforts to improve the nutrition of military personnel when performing tasks in high altitude conditions. The Defense Ministry of the Kyrgyz Republic tested a new version of a special dry ration, which included national kinds of marching food. It was decided to continue working on this topic as part of the research work "Coalition-MTO-22," which will open in 2022 at the Army General A.V. Khrulev Military Academy of Material and Technical Support in order to improve the system of Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics for the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces).
A regular meeting of the CSTO Defense Ministers Council Working Group on the Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces) is scheduled to take place in the Republic of Kazakhstan during a special training "Echelon-2022”.
