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.
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”.
