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.”
The CSTO Joint Staff held a working meeting with participants of the first meeting of chairmen of international affairs committees of the parliaments of the CSTO member States
10.02.2022
On February 10, this year, Colonel General Anatoly Sidorov, Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff, had a working meeting with participants of the first meeting of chairmen of committees (commissions) of the parliaments of the CSTO member States, whose subject matter is international relations.
Colonel General Anatoly Sidorov, Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff, briefed the delegation on the activities of the structural subdivisions of the CSTO Joint Staff and the Organization's Crisis Response Center. He briefed parliamentarians on the forces and means of the Organization's collective security system, the joint training of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces) and the work algorithms of the Crisis Response Center during tThe event participants have discussed issues related to the improvement of the collective security system and CSTO priority areas for the Republic of Armenia's presidency in the Organization in 2022, as well as issues of cooperation in organizing and conducting joint events.
Guests were also introduced to the historical exposition of the lecture and exhibition hall located in the International Military Center.
