The Open International Youth Sambo Festival of National Teams of the CSTO Member States was held at the International Sambo Center in Moscow.
On August 17–19, at the invitation of Colonel General Alexander Manilov, Chairman of the Coordination Service of the Council of Border Troops Commanders of the CIS, a delegation of the CSTO Joint Staff headed by Colonel General Andrey Serdyukov took part in international events held in the area of responsibility of the Border Directorate of the Russian Federal Security Service for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region.
On August 14, consultations were held via videoconference at the CSTO Joint Staff with representatives of relevant ministries and agencies of the CSTO member states on organizing joint training activities for command and control bodies and formations of the CSTO collective security system in 2027.
On July 15, 2026, the High-Level Regional Meeting “Enhancing Capacities to Prevent the Supply of Weapons to Terrorists in Central Asia” was held in Moscow, organized by the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism with the participation of the Russian side.
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
