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.”
MGIMO hosted the CSTO Student Model dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the signing of the Collective Security Treaty
17.03.2022
On March 16, 2022, the CSTO Student Model, dedicated to the thirtieth anniversary of the signing of the Collective Security Treaty, was held at MGIMO. Head of the Department of Political Cooperation of the CSTO Secretariat Piotr Koronevsky made a keynote speech at the event. He acquainted students and graduate students with the principles of the Organization, its objectives and prospects for development, as well as the main areas of activity within the CSTO format.
Igor Panarin, the Executive Director of the CSTO University League, also took part in the Model.
A panel discussion was held as part of the Model, during which presentations were made by students and graduate students of MGIMO and Moscow State University.
Reports were devoted to increasing the peacekeeping potential of the CSTO, improving the CSTO CRRF, Afghan issues, and a number of other areas of CSTO the activity.
The event was organized by the Russian Foreign Policy Club of the MGIMO Academic Student Society.
