A meeting of the Working Group of the Coordination Council of Heads of Competent Authorities on Combating Illicit Drug Trafficking (CCHN) on organizing international anti-drug operations within the CSTO framework was held in Aktau, Republic of Kazakhstan.
The Open International Youth Sambo Festival of National Teams of the CSTO Member States was held at the International Sambo Center in Moscow.
On August 17–19, at the invitation of Colonel General Alexander Manilov, Chairman of the Coordination Service of the Council of Border Troops Commanders of the CIS, a delegation of the CSTO Joint Staff headed by Colonel General Andrey Serdyukov took part in international events held in the area of responsibility of the Border Directorate of the Russian Federal Security Service for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region.
On August 14, consultations were held via videoconference at the CSTO Joint Staff with representatives of relevant ministries and agencies of the CSTO member states on organizing joint training activities for command and control bodies and formations of the CSTO collective security system in 2027.
In Kyrgyzstan, preparations for the “Rubezh-2025” training are taking into account the experience gained during a special military operation
16.09.2025
On 15 September, in the Kyrgyz Republic, at the “Edelweiss” training center, under general supervision of the CSTO Joint Staff, instructor-methodological training sessions were held with the Command of the Collective Rapid Deployment Forces of the Central Asian Region (CAR CRDF) on issues of organization, management, formation and coordination.
During the training sessions, the materials for which were prepared based on the experience of the Russian Armed Forces in conducting special military operation, officers of the CSTO Joint Staff provided information on the procedure for deploying and organizing work at the CAR CRDF Control Centre, including to the heads of branches of the armed forces, services and other structural units. Particular attention was paid to the procedure for organizing and conducting command coordination activities, as well as organizing countermeasures against enemy UAVs at command posts.
Representatives of the defense ministries of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Russia and the Republic of Tajikistan were involved in the trainings.
According to the training scenario, they are officials of the training command headquarters and the Command of the CAR CRDF, with a total number of more than 160 people.
These measures are aimed at achieving one of the most important goals of the upcoming “Rubezh-2025” training: improving the organization of the CSTO Collective Forces.
The instructor-methodological training sessions concluded with a practical demonstration of the actions of the forces and means on duty in repelling strikes by a simulated enemy UAV against the CAR CRDF command post.
Joint press center of the CSTO trainings
