On May 19, 2026, Acting CSTO Deputy Secretary General Samat Ordabayev met in Vienna with Director of the Division for Operations of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Bo Mathiasen.
On May 19, 2026, an international round table on the topic “CSTO: together for strengthening international peace and stability” was held at the Hofburg Palace in Vienna, Austria, on the sidelines of the OSCE Forum for Security Co-operation in Europe.
On May 18, CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov, together with the heads of the diplomatic missions of the CSTO member states in Vienna, took part in a solemn wreath and flower-laying ceremony at the monument to the Soviet Liberator Soldier at Schwarzenbergplatz.
On May 18, 2026, a meeting was held in Vienna between Acting CSTO Deputy Secretary General Samat Ordabayev and Coordinator of the Transnational Threats Department of the OSCE Secretariat Elena Kupchina.
On May 18, 2026, a meeting was held in Vienna between the CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov and OSCE Secretary General Feridun Sinirlioğlu.
Participants of the CSTO trainings "Interaction-2025", "Search-2025" and "Echelon-2025" are heading to the Republic of Belarus
26.08.2025
Participants in the joint trainings with the Collective Rapid Reaction Forces of the CSTO "Interaction-2025", special trainings "Search-2025" and "Echelon-2025" will regroup in the Republic of Belarus by August 29.
Contingents of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces) are being sent from the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Russian Federation and the Republic of Tajikistan to the areas of the trainings in accordance with the plan.
Trainings combining the preparation of various components of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces) will be held on the territory of the Republic of Belarus at the “Losvido” and “Lepelsky” training grounds from August 31 to September 6.
The joint training with the Collective Rapid Reaction Forces of the CSTO "Interaction-2025" is aimed at working out the issues of preparing and conducting a joint operation to participate in resolving the crisis situation in the territory of the CSTO member state;
During the special training "Search-2025", issues of organizing and conducting reconnaissance in the interests of the CSTO CRRF will be worked out.;
The special training "Echelon-2025" provides for the elaboration of issues related to the organization of logistics.
The peculiarity of these trainings in 2025 is that their plans are closely linked to the plan of the joint strategic training of the armed forces of the Republic of Belarus and the Russian Federation “West-2025”.
The Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff, Colonel-General Andrei Serdyukov, speaking at a briefing yesterday, emphasized that the trainings conducted in the CSTO format were planned, were not directed against third countries and were aimed at improving the coherence of command bodies and troops, as well as maintaining the readiness of formations of forces and means to carry out tasks in the interests of ensuring collective security.
