On June 10, 2026, a regular meeting of the CSTO Council of Foreign Ministers was held in Kazan (Russian Federation) under the chairmanship of the Russian side, with the participation of CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov. CIS Deputy Secretary General Denis Trefilov and SCO Deputy Secretary General Oleg Kopylov were also invited to attend the meeting.
On June 9, 2026, a delegation of the Secretariat of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, headed by CSTO Deputy Secretary General Valery Semerikov, took part in the 19th Meeting of Heads of Lead Counter-Terrorism Units of the Competent Authorities of the CIS Member States and Heads of National Structures Responsible for Coordinating Counter-Terrorism and Counter-Extremism Activities. The event was organized by the Anti-Terrorism Center of the CIS Member States.
A working meeting between CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov and Director of the Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences Kirill Babaev was held at the Secretariat of the Collective Security Treaty Organization.
From June 2 to 4, the Republic of Belarus hosted the second staff talks on the organization and conduct of the CSTO Peacekeeping Forces command-and-staff exercise “Indestructible Brotherhood 2026” and the special exercise “Barrier 2026” involving the CSTO Joint CBRN Protection and Medical Support Formation.
The Republic of Belarus hosted a meeting of the Working Group under the CSTO Defense Ministers Council to coordinate joint training of military personnel and scientific work
06.10.2023
On 4-6 October, the sixth meeting of the Working Group under the CSTO Defense Ministers' Council on coordination of joint military training and scientific work was held in the Republic of Belarus at the “Yanka Kupala State University in Grodno”.
Under the general supervision of Major General Viktor Lisovsky, the Deputy Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff, the event was attended by the heads of the military education management bodies of defense departments of the CSTO member states, basic training and research organizations of the CSTO member states, representatives of the CSTO Joint Staff and invited guests.
To date, 12 military educational establishments of the CSTO member states have been given the status of the CSTO basic training and methodological organizations providing training in the following specialties: general military, air defense, missile forces and artillery, military air defense, communications, logistics, information security, electronic warfare, training of personnel of the CSTO Peacekeeping Forces, mine clearance, medical and pharmaceutical specialties, as well as the training of personnel responsible for ensuring the national security and defense capacity of the member states of the Organization.
Seven relevant research organizations and military educational institutions of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation have been given the status of basic research organizations of the CSTO, which carry out scientific-theoretical and scientific-practical study of issues related to the creation, improvement, training and use of forces and means of the CSTO collective security system in the field of research on air defense, missile defense, logistics, medical support, electronic warfare, military-technical cooperation of the Organization and problems of development, and problems of development and application of the aviation component of the CSTO.
Summing up the results of the event, Major General Viktor Lisovsky noted that the specialists managed to discuss topical issues of joint training of military personnel and scientific work in the CSTO system, develop proposals on how to enhance cooperation and outline ways to further improve the system of joint training of military personnel of the CSTO member states.
Photo: Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Belarus
