From 21 to 25 April this year, the CSTO Secretariat is holding an annual training course for representatives of the CSTO member states without military status.
The meeting was held in the city of Moscow at the CSTO Joint Staff under the chairmanship of Viktor Zinoviev, Secretary of the CSTO Interstate Commission on Military-Economic Cooperation (ICMEC, Commission).
From April 7 to 10, 2025 on the basis of the Park-Hotel “Ognikovo” of Istrinsky district of Moscow region, the XXII International seminar-meeting on complex martial arts with the heads of combat and physical training of power ministries and departments of the CSTO member states took place.
On April 11, 2025, in Dushanbe, the CSTO Secretary General Imangali Tasmagambetov met with the Tajik Defense Minister Emomali Sobirzoda, the Secretary of the Security Council of the Republic of Tajikistan Rahmon Yusuf Ahmadzoda and the First Deputy Chairman - Commander of Border Troops of the State Committee for National Security of Tajikistan Murodali Rajab Rajabzoda.
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
