From October 13 to 16, 2025, the 23rd International Combat Sambo Tournament for the Cup of the Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, featuring law enforcement personnel from CSTO member states, was held at the Ognikovo Park Hotel (19 Ognikovo, Istra District, Moscow Region).
Today, the final stages of the command-and-staff exercise with the CSTO Peacekeeping Forces “Indestructible Brotherhood-2026” and the special exercise with the CSTO joint NBC protection and medical support formation “Barrier-2026” took place at the Losvido and Starodorozhsky training ranges in the Republic of Belarus.
On October 15–16, a CSTO, CIS and SCO conference on security issues in Central Asia and Afghanistan was held in Moscow as part of Russia’s CSTO chairmanship programme.
At the Losvido training range in the Republic of Belarus, peacekeeping units repelled a simulated enemy attack on a humanitarian convoy during the command-and-staff exercise with the CSTO Peacekeeping Forces “Indestructible Brotherhood-2026”.
These days, the 23rd International Combat Sambo Tournament for the Cup of the Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, featuring law enforcement personnel from CSTO member states, is being held at the Ognikovo Park Hotel (19 Ognikovo, Istra District, Moscow Region).
142 journalists from 13 countries covered the trainings of CSTO Collective Forces in the Republic of Tajikistan
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)