On July 15, 2026, the High-Level Regional Meeting “Enhancing Capacities to Prevent the Supply of Weapons to Terrorists in Central Asia” was held in Moscow, organized by the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism with the participation of the Russian side.
On July 14, 2026, a working meeting was held at the CSTO Secretariat between CSTO Deputy Secretary General Valery Semerikov and UN Assistant Secretary-General Alexander Zuev.
From July 7 to 9, second staff talks were held in the Russian Federation on the organization and conduct of the CSTO Collective Rapid Reaction Forces (CRRF) command-and-staff exercise “Interaction-2026”, the special reconnaissance exercise “Poisk-2026”, and the logistics support exercise “Echelon-2026”.
In accordance with the 2026 Action Plan of the Coordinating Council of Heads of the Competent Authorities for Countering Illicit Drug Trafficking of the CSTO Member States, and as part of the Russian Federation's priorities during its 2026 CSTO Chairmanship, the sub-regional counter-narcotics operation “Kanal – Amber Coast” was conducted from June 29 to July 3, 2026. The operation was aimed at disrupting trafficking routes for narcotic drugs, their precursors and analogues, new psychoactive substances, and potent substances into the CSTO area of responsibility, neutralizing international transnational drug trafficking groups, dismantling clandestine drug production facilities, undermining the economic foundations of the drug trade, including the laundering of drug proceeds.
Anatoly Sidorov, Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff, gave a briefing
16.11.2023
On 16 November, at 11:00 a.m. (Moscow time), the International Multimedia Press Centre of the “Rossiya Segodnya” International Media Group hosted a briefing by Colonel-General Anatoly Alekseevich Sidorov, Chief of the Joint Staff of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, in the format of a videoconferencing between Moscow and Yerevan - Minsk - Astana - Bishkek on the main results of the “Combat Brotherhood-2023” joint operational-strategic training.
As part of this large-scale training in September-October 2023 in the Eastern European and Central Asian regions, a set of measures to prevent and resolve a military conflict and post-conflict settlement was practiced with the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces).
The Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff also spoke about the main results of the CSTO Joint Staff's activities to improve the military component of the Organization, including the development of the collective security system, the Crisis Response Centre, military-technical cooperation and coordination of personnel training for the armed forces of the CSTO member states.
