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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.
The CSTO Joint Staff held the first staff talks on the preparation of joint trainings with the CSTO Collective Forces in 2022
28.04.2022
From April 26 to 28 of this year, the CSTO Joint Staff held the first staff talks on the organization and conduct of joint trainings with the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces), planned to be held in 2022.
Representatives of the concerned ministries and agencies of the Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Russian Federation, the Republic of Tajikistan and the CSTO Secretariat took part in the talks under the general supervision of Lieutenant General Hasan Kaloyev, First Deputy Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff.
In the course of the talks, the basics of the intentions of the joint trainings, the composition of the command and control bodies and troops involved in the trainings, and the procedure for the participation of invited contingents and observers in the joint events were examined and discussed.
A set of activities is envisaged as part of the operational and strategic training "Combat Brotherhood-2022".
Under the supervision of the CSTO Chief of the Joint Staff, in the course of the strategic command post training, the Organization's Crisis Response Center in cooperation with operational groups of concerned ministries and departments of states will consider in detail the factors affecting the state of collective security, forecast the development of the military, political and strategic situation, determine the probability and measures for the resolution of crisis situations.
In the territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan it is planned to carry out trainings integrating the preparation of various components of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces): command and staff training with the CSTO Collective Rapid Reaction Forces "Interaction-2022", special training with forces and means of intelligence "Search-2022" and with forces and means of Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces) "Echelon-2022".
In order to practice the use of forces and means of the CSTO collective security system to counter international terrorist organizations, a joint training with units of the Central Asian Region’s Collective Rapid Deployment Forces "Rubezh-2022" was planned on the territory of the Republic of Tajikistan.
At the final stage of the operational-strategic training "Combat Brotherhood-2022" in the Kyrgyz Republic it is planned to hold a command and staff training with the CSTO Peacekeeping Forces "Indestructible Brotherhood-2022", during which the tasks of post-conflict settlement in the crisis zone and conducting a peacekeeping operation will be practiced.
The organization and conduct of these activities is carried out in accordance with the Regulations on the procedure for the preparation and conduct of joint trainings in the CSTO format, approved by the CSTO Collective Security Council decision of November 28, 2019.
