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.
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
