On June 23, 2026, a ceremonial event was held at the Advanced Training Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation to mark the 20th anniversary of the CSTO Collective Security Council's decision granting the Institute the status of the Basic Educational Institution for Continuing Professional Education of law enforcement and special service personnel of the CSTO member states in the fields of counterterrorism, combating extremism, illicit drug trafficking, illegal migration, and other forms of transnational organized crime, as well as for the training of specialists for peacekeeping missions and teaching staff of educational institutions.
85 years ago, the Great Patriotic War began. The war machine of Nazi Germany launched a treacherous attack against Soviet cities and villages and committed unprecedented atrocities against Soviet citizens. The peoples of the Soviet Union rose to defend their common Motherland and paid an enormous price for peace, freedom, and the right to live on their own land.
On June 17–18, 2026, CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov visited sections of the State Border of the Republic of Belarus with Poland and Lithuania.
On June 18, 2026, the 24th Meeting of the Interstate Commission for Military-Economic Cooperation of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (ICMEC CSTO) was held in Minsk on the sidelines of the 3rd International Security Industry Exhibition “National Security. Belarus 2026”. The meeting was chaired by Dmitry Stefanovich, Head of the Belarusian National Section of the ICMEC and Deputy Chairman of the State Authority for Military Industry of the Republic of Belarus.
On June 18, 2026, the 2nd Military-Economic Conference of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, entitled “Development of Cooperation among the Defense Industries (Military-Industrial Complexes) of the CSTO Member States: 20 Years of Practical Cooperation”, was held in Minsk on the sidelines of the 3rd International Security Industry Exhibition “National Security. Belarus 2026”. The event brought together representatives of relevant ministries, agencies, defense enterprises, and other institutions and organizations of the CSTO member states.
The CSTO held joint command-staff training aimed at practicing the formation and deployment of the CAR CRDF
11.10.2022
On October 10-11, a joint command-staff training on "Preparation of proposals and draft decisions for the formation and deployment of the Central Asian Regional Collective Rapid Deployment Forces (CAR CRDF) in the crisis area on the territory of a the CSTO member state" was held in the Collective Security Treaty Organization under the charge of First Deputy Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff, Lieutenant General Khasan Kaloyev.
According to the training situation, the CSTO has received a Request from the President of a member country for military and military-technical assistance to resolve the crisis situation related to the threat of invasion of the territory of a CSTO member state by illegal armed groups.
The Crisis Response Center was deployed in Moscow in response to the appeal. Officers of the Joint Staff and members of the CSTO Secretariat were included in the functional groups. Interaction with ministries and agencies of the Organization's member States was organized by videoconferencing.
At the first stage, training participants assessed the military-political and military-strategic situation in the CSTO area of responsibility, predicted its development, and developed proposals for priority measures of a political and diplomatic nature.
The second stage involved the preparation of proposals on the composition, regrouping, operational deployment and use of the CAR CRDF, as well as on the provision of military and technical assistance to a member state of the Organization.
The result of the joint command-staff training was the elaboration of a set of documents, decisions of the Organization's bodies on the formation and deployment of the CAR CRDF. The documents worked out during the joint command-staff training will be used in the joint training with the CAR CRDF "Rubezh-2022". A decision was made to dispatch a task force of the CSTO Joint Staff to the crisis area.
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Объединённый пресс-центр учений ОДКБ
