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).
Within the framework of improving crisis response, duty shifts have practiced joint actions in identifying sabotage, terrorist attacks and emergencies
23.12.2024
On 20 December, a joint training session was held between the duty shifts of the CSTO Crisis Response Center and the command posts of the defense and emergency ministries of the Organization's member states.
Representatives of the CSTO Crisis Response Center, the Command Post of the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Belarus, the National Defense Control Center of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Crisis Response Center of the Main Operational Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Kyrgyz Republic, the National Defense Control Center of the Russian Federation, the Command Post of the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Tajikistan, as well as the operational duty shifts of ministries of emergency situations of the Republic of Kazakhstan participated in the event via videoconferencing.
In the course of the training, joint actions were practiced by the duty shifts in detecting sabotage at critical infrastructure facilities and incidents on the state border of one of the CSTO member states. In addition, according to the concept of the joint training, an emergency situation involving a large-scale spillage of a chemically hazardous substance developed at one of the facilities as a result of a terrorist act, the elimination of which required the prompt involvement of rescue units.
Colonel Evgeny Chernousov, Deputy Head of the CSTO Crisis Response Center, summarizing the results of the joint training, noted that the duty shifts had successfully worked out all the instructions and issues of interaction in the event of crisis (emergency) situations.
