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.
Training for representatives of law enforcement agencies of the CSTO member states is held at the Management Academy of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs
29.03.2023
On March 27, 2023, in the conference hall of the group of international cooperation for representatives of the Interior Ministry of the Republic of Belarus, the National Guard of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Interior Ministry of the Kyrgyz Republic, who arrived for training, the training course was opened, where Major General Sinenko Sergey Andreevich, Head of the Management Academy of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs, and representatives of the CSTO Secretariat addressed the audience with a welcoming speech.
As part of the training, algorithms are practiced by the senior staff of law enforcement agencies and special services of the CSTO member states when conducting special operations.
