An international scientific and practical conference entitled “Transformation of the Global Security System and the Shaping of a Eurasian Security Framework” was held at Moscow State Linguistic University (MSLU).
Today, a conference entitled “The Role and Place of Media in CSTO Member States in Efforts to Contain Crisis (Emergency) Situations in Collective Security Regions” was held in Minsk.
An international scientific and practical conference entitled “The Situation in the Middle East, North Africa and the Sahara-Sahel Region: Development Forecasts for 2027” was held in Moscow, organized by the Center for Scientific and Analytical Information of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
On October 18, 2026, the “Cobalt-2026” special exercise opened in the Republic of Tajikistan, in accordance with the 2026 Plan for the Joint Training of Command and Control Bodies and Formations of Forces and Assets of the CSTO Collective Security System. The exercise involves special units of internal affairs and national security agencies, internal troops (National Guard), special services and anti-drug agencies, as well as rescue units incorporated into the Special Purpose Forces formations of the CSTO Collective Operational Reaction Forces (CORF).
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).
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.
