From October 18 to 23 this year, in accordance with the 2026 Plan for the Joint Training of Command and Control Bodies and Formations of Forces and Assets of the Collective Security System of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, the “Cobalt-2026” special exercise was held at the Magob training range of the Special Purpose Units Training Center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Tajikistan.
An international scientific and practical conference entitled “Greater Eurasia: Institutions, Development, Cooperation” was held at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, jointly organized with the Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ICCA RAS). CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov took part in the conference.
A working meeting between CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov and Kazem Jalali, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the Russian Federation, was held at the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the Russian Federation.
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.
The CSTO joint training "Cobalt-2022" started in the Kyrgyz Republic, at the "Edelweiss" training range
03.08.2022On August 3, 2022 in the Kyrgyz Republic, at the “Edelweiss” training range in Balykchy, the opening ceremony of the tactical and special training "Cobalt-2022" with the special forces formations included in the CSTO Collective Rapid Reaction Forces (CRRF) took place.
The CSTO Deputy Secretary General Valery Semerikov made welcoming remarks at the event. Major General Oktyabr Urmambetov, the Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of the Kyrgyz Republic, noted that the purpose of the training was to prevent criminal activity in the member States, as well as close cooperation of the security agencies of the CSTO countries.
During the training, combined groups of special forces of the member states will perform training and applied operational and combat tasks of searching, blocking and neutralizing of gangs, terrorist groups, as well as closing drug smuggling channels and detection of caches, laboratories for the storage and production of drugs and their destruction.
The training plan calls for a command and staff training with the Operational Staff of the CSTO Collective Rapid Deployment Forces formations of special forces on planning a special operation and organizing interaction and management of dissimilar forces and equipment. At the end of the training, there will be shooting competitions using various types of weapons as well as sports competitions in soccer and volleyball among the teams of the training participants. The training will continue until 5 August, 2022.
