On July 15, 2026, the High-Level Regional Meeting “Enhancing Capacities to Prevent the Supply of Weapons to Terrorists in Central Asia” was held in Moscow, organized by the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism with the participation of the Russian side.
On July 14, 2026, a working meeting was held at the CSTO Secretariat between CSTO Deputy Secretary General Valery Semerikov and UN Assistant Secretary-General Alexander Zuev.
From July 7 to 9, second staff talks were held in the Russian Federation on the organization and conduct of the CSTO Collective Rapid Reaction Forces (CRRF) command-and-staff exercise “Interaction-2026”, the special reconnaissance exercise “Poisk-2026”, and the logistics support exercise “Echelon-2026”.
In accordance with the 2026 Action Plan of the Coordinating Council of Heads of the Competent Authorities for Countering Illicit Drug Trafficking of the CSTO Member States, and as part of the Russian Federation's priorities during its 2026 CSTO Chairmanship, the sub-regional counter-narcotics operation “Kanal – Amber Coast” was conducted from June 29 to July 3, 2026. The operation was aimed at disrupting trafficking routes for narcotic drugs, their precursors and analogues, new psychoactive substances, and potent substances into the CSTO area of responsibility, neutralizing international transnational drug trafficking groups, dismantling clandestine drug production facilities, undermining the economic foundations of the drug trade, including the laundering of drug proceeds.
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)
