From October 13 to 16, 2025, the 23rd International Combat Sambo Tournament for the Cup of the Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, featuring law enforcement personnel from CSTO member states, was held at the Ognikovo Park Hotel (19 Ognikovo, Istra District, Moscow Region).
Today, the final stages of the command-and-staff exercise with the CSTO Peacekeeping Forces “Indestructible Brotherhood-2026” and the special exercise with the CSTO joint NBC protection and medical support formation “Barrier-2026” took place at the Losvido and Starodorozhsky training ranges in the Republic of Belarus.
On October 15–16, a CSTO, CIS and SCO conference on security issues in Central Asia and Afghanistan was held in Moscow as part of Russia’s CSTO chairmanship programme.
At the Losvido training range in the Republic of Belarus, peacekeeping units repelled a simulated enemy attack on a humanitarian convoy during the command-and-staff exercise with the CSTO Peacekeeping Forces “Indestructible Brotherhood-2026”.
These days, the 23rd International Combat Sambo Tournament for the Cup of the Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, featuring law enforcement personnel from CSTO member states, is being held at the Ognikovo Park Hotel (19 Ognikovo, Istra District, Moscow Region).
A plan for the CSTO regional operation "Illegal" to counter illegal migration for 2021 has been agreed
31.03.2021On March 31, 2021, under the chairmanship of the Secretary of the Coordination Council of the Heads of the Competent Authorities of the CSTO Member States on Combating Illegal Migration, the Head of the Main Directorate for Migration of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, Police Lieutenant General Valentina Kazakova, a meeting of the International Headquarters of the CSTO regional operation "Illegal" was held.
The meeting was attended by representatives of all national headquarters of the CSTO member states involved in the "Illegal" operation and the CSTO Deputy Secretary General Valery Semerikov.
In the course of the event, representatives of the national headquarters of the Organization's member states substantively discussed the concept of the operation under the code name "Illegal-2021" and agreed on the timing of the stages of active measures in the current year.
In addition, in the course of the meeting, measures for coordinating interaction in the process of the operation were considered and agreed upon, communication channels and the procedure for exchanging information, as well as preparing and sending responses to possible requests from the interacting parties, were determined.
Based on the results of the work of the International Headquarters, it was decided to submit the agreed Plan of operation “Illegal-2021” for signature to the CSTO Secretary General Stanislav Zas and the Chairman of the Coordination Council of the Heads of the Competent Authorities of the CSTO Member States on Combating Illegal Migration, the First Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Russia, Police Colonel-General Alexander Gorovoy.
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The CSTO Press Secretary Vladimir Zaynetdinov
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