An international scientific and practical conference entitled “Transformation of the Global Security System and the Shaping of a Eurasian Security Framework” was held at Moscow State Linguistic University (MSLU).
Today, a conference entitled “The Role and Place of Media in CSTO Member States in Efforts to Contain Crisis (Emergency) Situations in Collective Security Regions” was held in Minsk.
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).
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.
