28 April marks the Day of the CSTO Joint Staff. It should be recalled that on 28 April 2003, in Dushanbe, the Collective Security Council, guided by the need to establish a military staff body responsible for implementing the military component of the Collective Security Treaty, adopted the Decision “On the Establishment of the Joint Staff of the Collective Security Treaty Organization.”
On 27 April 2026, within the framework of the International Scientific and Practical Conference “Contours of a New Architecture of Collective Security: Current Issues of Information and Analytical Partnership within the CSTO,” held at MGIMO University of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, a round table entitled “Eurasian Analytical Platform: New Approaches in a New Geopolitical Reality” took place. During the event, Head of the Information and Public Relations Department of the CSTO Secretariat Yuriy Shuvalov delivered a presentation on “The Eurasian Analytical Network: A New Cognitive Architecture of Collective Security.”
In the CSTO member states, the Agreement on cooperation in ensuring information security has entered into force.
02.04.2019The purpose of the Agreement is to further develop the interaction of member states in the interests of ensuring the information security of the CSTO.
Under the Agreement, Member States agreed:
- strengthen inter-agency collaboration;
- improve the mechanisms for countering threats in the information sphere;
- conduct joint practical activities aimed at strengthening information security and countering illegal activities in the information space of the CSTO member states;
- to promote the development and early adoption under the UN auspices of universal rules, norms and principles of responsible behavior of states in the information space;
- provide mutual assistance in order to develop the technological basis (base) for ensuring the information security of the member states.
