On June 3, 2026, a regular meeting of the CSTO Council of Defense Ministers (CDM) was held at the Patriot Central Park of the Russian Ministry of Defense under the chairmanship of the Russian side. The meeting was attended by CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov and Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff Andrey Serdyukov.
From June 1 to 3, Saratov (Russian Federation) is hosting a series of events involving the member states of the Collective Security Treaty Organization aimed at strengthening the collective response system to biological threats.
On June 1, 2026, consultations at the deputy foreign minister level of the CSTO member states were held in Moscow.
On May 28, 2026, CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov took part in the International Security Forum held under the auspices of the Security Council of the Russian Federation. More than 150 delegations from 120 countries participated in the event.
On May 26 of this year, a round table entitled “35 Years of the Commonwealth of Independent States: Results, Tasks, and Prospects” was held at the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation. The event was attended by heads of integration structures in the post-Soviet space, representatives of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as well as representatives of the embassies of CIS countries in Russia. Opening remarks were delivered by the moderator, Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on International Affairs Grigory Karasin.
The meeting of the Working Group on Military-Economic Cooperation under the Chairman of the CSTO Interstate Commission on Military-Economic Cooperation was held
24.04.2026
On 23–24 April 2026, a meeting of the Working Group on Military-Economic Cooperation under the Chairman of the CSTO Interstate Commission on Military-Economic Cooperation was held.
The meeting took place in Moscow at the CSTO Joint Staff under the chairmanship of Secretary of the CSTO Interstate Commission on Military-Economic Cooperation (ICMEC, the Commission) Viktor Zinovyev.
The participants reviewed the progress in implementing the decisions of the 23rd meeting of the ICMEC, held in November 2025 in Astana (Republic of Kazakhstan), and discussed and agreed on the list of issues to be submitted for consideration at the 24th meeting of the ICMEC, scheduled for 18 June this year in Minsk (Republic of Belarus), which will be held within the framework of the business program of the 3rd International Exhibition of the Security Industry “National Security. Belarus – 2026” (17–19 June this year, Minsk).
As a result of the meeting, draft decisions of the Commission were approved on the establishment of an interstate system for cataloguing military supplies of the armed forces of the CSTO member states, on ensuring mutual protection of intellectual property rights to the results of intellectual activity obtained and used in the course of military-economic cooperation within the CSTO framework, as well as on a number of organizational issues.
In addition, draft agenda and protocol of the 24th meeting of the ICMEC were agreed.
