On 17 April 2026, a working meeting was held at the CSTO Secretariat between Acting CSTO Deputy Secretary General Samat Ordabaev and the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Central Asia, Head of the United Nations Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia (UNRCCA), Kaha Imnadze.
On 17 April 2026, the 17th meeting of the Working Group under the CSTO Committee of Secretaries of Security Councils on information security was held in Moscow, with the participation of delegations of representatives of national coordinating and competent authorities on information security, as well as experts and specialists from relevant national structures and agencies of the Organization’s member states.
On 16 April 2026, the 21st meeting of the Council of the CSTO Consultative Coordination Center for Computer Incident Response (CCC CSTO) was held in Moscow, with the participation of delegations of representatives of national competent authorities for computer incident response of the Organization’s member states, as well as a delegation of the CSTO Secretariat headed by Umarzoda Umar Safar, Head of the Countering Challenges and Threats Department of the CSTO Secretariat.
On 17 April, the annual training courses for representatives of the CSTO member states who do not have the status of military personnel were completed at the CSTO Secretariat.
On 15 April 2026, a meeting was held in Bishkek between CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov and President of the Kyrgyz Republic Sadyr Japarov.
Special training "Search-2025": intelligence agencies continue to carry out tasks in designated areas
05.09.2025
In the Republic of Belarus, at the “Lepelsky” training ground, as part of a special training with the forces and intelligence assets of the CSTO member states, “Search–2025”, intelligence agencies continue to perform tasks in designated areas.
The topic of the special training "Search-2025" is the organization and conduct of intelligence by forces and means of intelligence agencies during the joint operation of the CSTO Collective Rapid Reaction Forces (CRRF) to participate in resolving the crisis situation on the territory of the CSTO member state.
The main purpose of the training is to conduct various types of intelligence in the interests of applying the CSTO CRRF, improving the practical skills of management bodies and personnel of intelligence units.
Pre-deployed intelligence agencies detect various targets of the simulated enemy, including illegal armed formations. When they are detected, reconnaissance groups adjust the fire of weapons and other special measures aimed at destroying the identified objects.
At the same time, the intelligence management bodies collect, analyze and summarize the intelligence information obtained and bring it to the Command of the CRRF, which makes it possible to implement the "discovered – struck" principle.
During the training, the scouts take into account the experience of conducting combat operations of modern armed conflicts in planning and ways of performing tasks.
The participants of “Search-2025” are actively using various types of UAVs, thermal imagers, and the latest intelligence and communications equipment.
As part of the training, issues of organizing complex intelligence, retargeting intelligence agencies to other intelligence facilities, performing reconnaissance tasks through surveillance, eavesdropping, conducting searches and ambushes are also being worked out.
A joint training with the Collective Rapid Reaction Forces of the CSTO "Interaction-2025", aimed at working out the issues of preparing and conducting a joint operation to participate in resolving a crisis situation on the territory of a CSTO member state, a special training with forces and means of reconnaissance "Search-2025", a special training with forces and means logistics support “Echelon-2025” are being conducted on the territory of the Republic of Belarus.
Contingents of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces) of the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Russian Federation and the Republic of Tajikistan are taking part in the trainings. Among them are military contingents, special forces formations from among the special units of the internal affairs bodies (police), security agencies and special services, authorized bodies in the field of emergency prevention and response, as well as operational groups of the Joint Staff and the CSTO Secretariat. In total, more than 2,000 military personnel and 450 units of weapons, military and special equipment are involved, including 9 combat aircraft and helicopters, over 70 different types of UAVs.
Joint Press Center of the CSTO trainings
