The Open International Youth Sambo Festival of National Teams of the CSTO Member States was held at the International Sambo Center in Moscow.
On August 17–19, at the invitation of Colonel General Alexander Manilov, Chairman of the Coordination Service of the Council of Border Troops Commanders of the CIS, a delegation of the CSTO Joint Staff headed by Colonel General Andrey Serdyukov took part in international events held in the area of responsibility of the Border Directorate of the Russian Federal Security Service for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region.
On August 14, consultations were held via videoconference at the CSTO Joint Staff with representatives of relevant ministries and agencies of the CSTO member states on organizing joint training activities for command and control bodies and formations of the CSTO collective security system in 2027.
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.
A meeting of the CSTO Council of Defense Ministers was held in Almaty
31.05.2024
On May 31, 2024, a meeting of the CSTO Council of Defense Ministers was held in Almaty under the chairmanship of the Kazakh side. The event was attended by the Secretary General of the Organization Imangali Tasmagambetov and the Chief of the Joint Staff, Colonel General Andrei Serdyukov.
The CSTO Secretary General made a report “On challenges and threats to military security in the collective security regions of the Collective Security Treaty Organization”. The meeting participants discussed the military-political situation in the collective security regions and its impact on the security of the member states.
Documents were also reviewed and signed regarding equipping the components of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces) with modern and promising models of weapons and military equipment, planning joint operational and combat training, improving the methodology for training CSTO peacekeeping contingents, as well as the Targeted Interstate Program of the Collective Security Treaty Organization on strengthening the Tajik-Afghan border and a number of others.
On the same day, in the Park named after the 28 Panfilov Guardsmen, the meeting participants honored the memory of the legendary soldiers of the Great Patriotic War and laid a wreath at the Eternal Flame Memorial.
