From 21 to 25 April this year, the CSTO Secretariat is holding an annual training course for representatives of the CSTO member states without military status.
The meeting was held in the city of Moscow at the CSTO Joint Staff under the chairmanship of Viktor Zinoviev, Secretary of the CSTO Interstate Commission on Military-Economic Cooperation (ICMEC, Commission).
From April 7 to 10, 2025 on the basis of the Park-Hotel “Ognikovo” of Istrinsky district of Moscow region, the XXII International seminar-meeting on complex martial arts with the heads of combat and physical training of power ministries and departments of the CSTO member states took place.
On April 11, 2025, in Dushanbe, the CSTO Secretary General Imangali Tasmagambetov met with the Tajik Defense Minister Emomali Sobirzoda, the Secretary of the Security Council of the Republic of Tajikistan Rahmon Yusuf Ahmadzoda and the First Deputy Chairman - Commander of Border Troops of the State Committee for National Security of Tajikistan Murodali Rajab Rajabzoda.
At the CSTO Joint Staff, Colonel General Anatoly Sidorov met with participants of the meeting of chairmen of parliamentary committees of the CSTO member states on international relations, defense and security
On February 1 this year, in Moscow, Colonel General Anatoly Sidorov, the Head of the CSTO Joint Staff, had a working meeting with the participants of the second meeting of the chairmen of the committees (commissions) of the parliaments of the CSTO member states, whose competence includes international relations, defense and security issues. The meeting was headed by Leonid Kalashnikov, the Chairman of the State Duma Committee of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation.
The meeting participants have discussed topical issues of improving the system of collective security and the priorities of the CSTO during the presidency of the Republic of Belarus in the Organization in 2023, as well as issues of cooperation in organizing and conducting joint events.
Colonel General Anatoly Sidorov, Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff, briefed the members of 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 main directions of development of the military component of the CSTO, on the forces and means of the Organization's collective security system, on the joint training of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces), as well as on the algorithms of work in crisis response.
A delegation of representatives of parliaments of the CSTO member states was also familiarized with the historical exposition of the lecture and exhibition hall, located in the International Military Center.