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From October 18 to 23 this year, in accordance with the 2026 Plan for the Joint Training of Command and Control Bodies and Formations of Forces and Assets of the Collective Security System of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, the “Cobalt-2026” special exercise was held at the Magob training range of the Special Purpose Units Training Center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Tajikistan.

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An international scientific and practical conference entitled “Greater Eurasia: Institutions, Development, Cooperation” was held at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, jointly organized with the Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ICCA RAS). CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov took part in the conference.

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A working meeting between CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov and Kazem Jalali, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the Russian Federation, was held at the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the Russian Federation.


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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).

21.10.2026

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.

The meeting of the CSTO Working Group of Coordination Council of the Heads of Competent Authorities for Countering the Illicit Drug Trafficking took place in Yerevan

The meeting of the CSTO Working Group of Coordination Council of the Heads of Competent Authorities for Countering the Illicit Drug Trafficking took place in Yerevan 23.08.2019
Photo by the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs

In Yerevan, under the chairmanship of the First Deputy Head of the Main Directorate for Drug Trafficking Control of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, Kirill Smurov, a meeting of the Working Group of the Coordinating Council of the Heads of the competent authorities on countering drug trafficking of the CSTO member states was held. The event was attended by representatives of law enforcement agencies of Russia, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, as well as the Secretariat of the Collective Security Treaty Organization.

The first deputy chief of the Police of the Republic of Armenia Arman Sargsyan delivered a welcoming speech. Then, the forum participants discussed the state and dynamics of the development of the drug situation in the CSTO member states. In addition, the results of the tactical and special exercises of the anti-drug special units “Thunder-2019” ("Grom-2019") held in Kyrgyzstan were summed up.



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