An international scientific and practical conference entitled “The Situation in the Middle East, North Africa and the Sahara-Sahel Region: Development Forecasts for 2027” was held in Moscow, organized by the Center for Scientific and Analytical Information of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
On October 18, 2026, the “Cobalt-2026” special exercise opened in the Republic of Tajikistan, in accordance with the 2026 Plan for the Joint Training of Command and Control Bodies and Formations of Forces and Assets of the CSTO Collective Security System. The exercise involves special units of internal affairs and national security agencies, internal troops (National Guard), special services and anti-drug agencies, as well as rescue units incorporated into the Special Purpose Forces formations of the CSTO Collective Operational Reaction Forces (CORF).
From October 13 to 16, 2025, the 23rd International Combat Sambo Tournament for the Cup of the Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, featuring law enforcement personnel from CSTO member states, was held at the Ognikovo Park Hotel (19 Ognikovo, Istra District, Moscow Region).
Today, the final stages of the command-and-staff exercise with the CSTO Peacekeeping Forces “Indestructible Brotherhood-2026” and the special exercise with the CSTO joint NBC protection and medical support formation “Barrier-2026” took place at the Losvido and Starodorozhsky training ranges in the Republic of Belarus.
On October 15–16, a CSTO, CIS and SCO conference on security issues in Central Asia and Afghanistan was held in Moscow as part of Russia’s CSTO chairmanship programme.
The Coordination Meeting of the Chief Narcologists of the CSTO member states was held in Moscow
07.10.2020
On October 6, 2020, in Moscow, under the chairmanship of the Chief Psychiatrist-Narcologist of the Ministry of Health of Russia Yevgeny Brun, the Coordination Meeting of the Chief Narcologists of the CSTO member states was held. Taking into account the epidemiological situation, the meeting was held in a mixed mode using videoconferencing.
Mikhail Melikhov, the Adviser to the CSTO Secretariat, the Deputy Secretary of the Coordinating Council of the Heads of Competent Authorities for Countering the Illicit Drug Trafficking of the CSTO member states, voiced the greeting of the CSTO Secretary General Stanislav Zas “On Countering Challenges and Threats in Modern Conditions”, which presented the main directions of the development of the drug situation in the CSTO members states and measures to counter drug trafficking.
The meeting was also attended by representatives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Health of Russia, UNODC in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
The Coordination Meeting of the chief narcologists of the CSTO member states showed that the comprehensive approaches to the provision of drug treatment, previously incorporated in the public health system, made it possible to identify drug addiction disorders and provide the necessary treatment for the distribution of any psychoactive substances. Practically everywhere there are positive trends in the reduction of morbidity associated with the use of alcohol and opium drugs, in the presence of alarming trends in the increase in the use of synthetic drugs.
(More about the meeting https://ksgn.odkb-csto.org/en/news/6-oktyabrya-2020-g-v-moskve-sostoyalos-koordinatsionnoe-soveshchanie...)
