On August 17–19, at the invitation of Colonel General Alexander Manilov, Chairman of the Coordination Service of the Council of Border Troops Commanders of the CIS, a delegation of the CSTO Joint Staff headed by Colonel General Andrey Serdyukov took part in international events held in the area of responsibility of the Border Directorate of the Russian Federal Security Service for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region.
On August 14, consultations were held via videoconference at the CSTO Joint Staff with representatives of relevant ministries and agencies of the CSTO member states on organizing joint training activities for command and control bodies and formations of the CSTO collective security system in 2027.
On July 15, 2026, the High-Level Regional Meeting “Enhancing Capacities to Prevent the Supply of Weapons to Terrorists in Central Asia” was held in Moscow, organized by the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism with the participation of the Russian side.
On July 14, 2026, a working meeting was held at the CSTO Secretariat between CSTO Deputy Secretary General Valery Semerikov and UN Assistant Secretary-General Alexander Zuev.
The CSTO Joint Staff held consultations on improving the organization of communication systems
14.12.2022
On December 14 this year, at the CSTO Joint Staff, a working meeting to review selected issues related to the organization of communications within the Collective Security Treaty Organization was held. Representatives of the defense communications authorities of the Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Russia, and the Republic of Tajikistan participated in the event via videoconferencing.
Colonel Vitaly Kenyaykin, head of the department for the organization of communications and automated Troop control systems (Collective Forces), made a presentation on this year's results of joint work. He said, "In 2022, the main test of the strength of the CSTO communication system was the peacekeeping operation in the Republic of Kazakhstan. Communication was successfully organized during joint trainings in the CSTO format. In October 2022, on the territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan, a communication line was deployed with the training range Matybulak, secured videoconferencing and data transfer with the CSTO Joint Staff and defense agencies of the CSTO member states was provided. Similar work was done from the territory of the Republic of Tajikistan, when training and combat tasks were practiced at the Kharbmaidon training range”.
It was noted that the CSTO regulatory and legal framework in the field of communications continued to improve: in 2022 a number of working meetings on the implementation of the CSTO Multiservice Communications Network Scheme were held; the CSTO Communications System Regulations were considered and approved by the CSTO Collective Security Council; draft Recommendations on the organization of communications within the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces) were elaborated and tested at the CSTO trainings this year.
The event allowed to discuss the results of the functioning of the communications system and automated troop control systems in the course of joint activities of operational and combat training of command and control bodies and formations of forces and means of the CSTO collective security system, as well as to outline ways to improve the technical basis of the interstate information interaction system of the Collective Security Treaty Organization.
