Today, at the Chebarkulsky training range in the Russian Federation, as part of the command-and-staff exercise with the CSTO Collective Operational Reaction Forces (CORF) “Interaction-2026”, joint actions to liberate a populated area captured by a simulated adversary were practiced.
On September 29–30, 2026, the 6th International Conference of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation on the spread of extremist ideology was held in Moscow. The CSTO delegation, comprising Umar Umarzoda, Head of the Department for Countering Challenges and Threats, and Igor Demchenko, Adviser to the Department, took part in the conference.
In the Russian Federation, at the Chebarkulsky training range, reconnaissance groups have begun practicing practical actions in designated areas as part of the CSTO special exercise with reconnaissance forces and assets “Search-2026”.
Today, a ceremony was held at the Chebarkulsky training range in the Russian Federation to open the command-and-staff exercise with the Collective Operational Reaction Forces of the Collective Security Treaty Organization “Interaction-2026” and the special exercises “Search-2026” and “Echelon-2026”.
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...)
