The active phase of the joint exercise with the Collective Rapid Deployment Forces of the Central Asian Region (CRDF CAR) “Frontier-2026” has begun at the Koktal training range in the Republic of Kazakhstan. During the exercise, the participating forces are practicing the preparation and conduct of combat operations to destroy illegal armed formations that have invaded the territory of a CSTO member state.
On September 11, 2026, a round table entitled “Kazakhstan–Central Asia–Greater Eurasia: resilience and security amid new challenges” was held at the Center for Social Conservative Policy. The event was organized by the CSTO Secretariat jointly with the Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ICCA RAS) and the Center for Social Conservative Policy (CSCP).
The event was attended by CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov, Director of the ICCA RAS Kirill Babaev, members of the CSTO Permanent Council and representatives of the academic and expert communities of the member states. The discussion was moderated by Yuri Shuvalov, Head of the Information and Public Relations Department of the CSTO Secretariat.
On September 4 this year, a round table entitled “CSTO–SCO: Security Space” was held as part of the business program of the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok. CSTO Secretariat representative Igor Panarin took part in the event.
As part of the improvement of crisis response, duty shifts practiced joint actions in identifying sabotage, terrorist attacks and emergencies
28.03.2025
On 28 March, the CSTO Joint Staff held a joint training session for the operational duty shift of the CSTO Crisis Response Centre, the duty shifts of the command post of the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Belarus and the National Defense Control Centre of the Russian Federation, with the involvement of representatives of the ministries of emergency situations of the CSTO member states.
The theme of the training: “Procedure of actions of duty shifts in case of identification of signs (preconditions) of a crisis, emergency situation in the East European region of collective security”.
The main objectives of the event were to improve practical skills in the actions of duty shifts during the formation of national contingents of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces) and their regrouping in the area of a crisis situation, as well as to enhance the coherence of the work of duty shifts in carrying out joint tasks.
In the course of the training, the duty shifts practiced their actions, in particular, in identifying state border violators and in the course of destroying sabotage and reconnaissance groups.
In addition, in a single information space, joint actions with duty shifts of the Ministries of Emergency Situations of the Republic of Belarus and the Russian Federation worked out issues of response to a terrorist act at a chemically hazardous facility.
Major General Arsen Rakhmanov, Head of the Crisis Response Centre, summarizing the results of the training, noted that all the issues of information exchange in accordance with the list of information subject to information exchange between the CSTO Crisis Response Centre and the authorized bodies of the CSTO member states were successfully worked out, and the duty shifts acted confidently.
Photo by the press service of the CSTO Joint Staff
