From July 7 to 9, second staff talks were held in the Russian Federation on the organization and conduct of the CSTO Collective Rapid Reaction Forces (CRRF) command-and-staff exercise “Interaction-2026”, the special reconnaissance exercise “Poisk-2026”, and the logistics support exercise “Echelon-2026”.
In accordance with the 2026 Action Plan of the Coordinating Council of Heads of the Competent Authorities for Countering Illicit Drug Trafficking of the CSTO Member States, and as part of the Russian Federation's priorities during its 2026 CSTO Chairmanship, the sub-regional counter-narcotics operation “Kanal – Amber Coast” was conducted from June 29 to July 3, 2026. The operation was aimed at disrupting trafficking routes for narcotic drugs, their precursors and analogues, new psychoactive substances, and potent substances into the CSTO area of responsibility, neutralizing international transnational drug trafficking groups, dismantling clandestine drug production facilities, undermining the economic foundations of the drug trade, including the laundering of drug proceeds.
The 12th Southern Information Security Forum “Infoforum Sochi 2026” is taking place in Sochi, Russia, from June 30 to July 3. On July 1, the Forum's plenary session brought together representatives of federal and regional authorities, regulatory bodies, leading companies, and international organizations to discuss current challenges in the protection of critical infrastructure, the development of artificial intelligence, and international cooperation.
On June 30 – July 1, 2026, Saint Petersburg hosted a series of events chaired by Alexander Kurenkov, Minister of the Russian Federation for Civil Defence, Emergencies and Elimination of Consequences of Natural Disasters, with the participation of heads of the competent authorities of the CSTO member states responsible for emergency prevention and response.
From June 24 to 26, 2026, CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov paid a working visit to the Republic of Tajikistan at the personal invitation of President Emomali Rahmon.
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...)
