On June 10, 2026, a regular meeting of the CSTO Council of Foreign Ministers was held in Kazan (Russian Federation) under the chairmanship of the Russian side, with the participation of CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov. CIS Deputy Secretary General Denis Trefilov and SCO Deputy Secretary General Oleg Kopylov were also invited to attend the meeting.
On June 9, 2026, a delegation of the Secretariat of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, headed by CSTO Deputy Secretary General Valery Semerikov, took part in the 19th Meeting of Heads of Lead Counter-Terrorism Units of the Competent Authorities of the CIS Member States and Heads of National Structures Responsible for Coordinating Counter-Terrorism and Counter-Extremism Activities. The event was organized by the Anti-Terrorism Center of the CIS Member States.
A working meeting between CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov and Director of the Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences Kirill Babaev was held at the Secretariat of the Collective Security Treaty Organization.
From June 2 to 4, the Republic of Belarus hosted the second staff talks on the organization and conduct of the CSTO Peacekeeping Forces command-and-staff exercise “Indestructible Brotherhood 2026” and the special exercise “Barrier 2026” involving the CSTO Joint CBRN Protection and Medical Support Formation.
142 journalists from 13 countries covered the trainings of CSTO Collective Forces in the Republic of Tajikistan
25.10.2021
Media representatives from 13 countries covered operational and strategic trainings of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) Collective Forces, which ended on Saturday in the Republic of Tajikistan. This was reported by the Joint Press Center of the trainings.
"To cover the CSTO trainings, 142 journalists were accredited from the CSTO member States, as well as from Great Britain, Vietnam, Germany, China, the United States, Japan and other countries.
A press center was set up at the “Harbmaidon” training range, where media representatives had an opportunity to familiarize themselves with all stages of the trainings, ask questions of its leaders, and make materials of interest to them.
The press center noted that many of the foreign journalists who visited the trainings of the CSTO Collective Forces in the Republic of Tajikistan had previously covered the strategic maneuvers "West-2021" and other military trainings.
Trainings "Echelon-2021", "Search-2021" and "Interaction-2012" took place from 18 to 23 October within the joint operational and strategic CSTO training "Combat Brotherhood - 2021". A total of 4,000 troops from the Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Russia, and the Republic of Tajikistan and more than 500 pieces of equipment took part in the trainings.
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The Joint Press Center of the CSTO training "Combat Brotherhood-2021”
(The Republic of Tajikistan, Kharbmaidon training range)
