From July 7 to 9, second staff talks were held in the Russian Federation on the organization and conduct of the CSTO Collective Rapid Reaction Forces (CRRF) command-and-staff exercise “Interaction-2026”, the special reconnaissance exercise “Poisk-2026”, and the logistics support exercise “Echelon-2026”.
In accordance with the 2026 Action Plan of the Coordinating Council of Heads of the Competent Authorities for Countering Illicit Drug Trafficking of the CSTO Member States, and as part of the Russian Federation's priorities during its 2026 CSTO Chairmanship, the sub-regional counter-narcotics operation “Kanal – Amber Coast” was conducted from June 29 to July 3, 2026. The operation was aimed at disrupting trafficking routes for narcotic drugs, their precursors and analogues, new psychoactive substances, and potent substances into the CSTO area of responsibility, neutralizing international transnational drug trafficking groups, dismantling clandestine drug production facilities, undermining the economic foundations of the drug trade, including the laundering of drug proceeds.
The 12th Southern Information Security Forum “Infoforum Sochi 2026” is taking place in Sochi, Russia, from June 30 to July 3. On July 1, the Forum's plenary session brought together representatives of federal and regional authorities, regulatory bodies, leading companies, and international organizations to discuss current challenges in the protection of critical infrastructure, the development of artificial intelligence, and international cooperation.
On June 30 – July 1, 2026, Saint Petersburg hosted a series of events chaired by Alexander Kurenkov, Minister of the Russian Federation for Civil Defence, Emergencies and Elimination of Consequences of Natural Disasters, with the participation of heads of the competent authorities of the CSTO member states responsible for emergency prevention and response.
From June 24 to 26, 2026, CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov paid a working visit to the Republic of Tajikistan at the personal invitation of President Emomali Rahmon.
The CSTO Military Committee meeting to be held in St. Petersburg
09.12.2019
On December 13, 2019 in St. Petersburg, under the chairmanship of the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation - First Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, Army General Valery Gerasimov, the 15th meeting of the CSTO Military Committee on the development of military cooperation of the member states of the Collective Security Treaty Organization will be held.
The meeting will be attended by the chiefs of the general staffs of the armed forces of the CSTO member states - the Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, Russian Federation and the Republic of Tajikistan, the first deputy chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Kyrgyz Republic and the head of the CSTO Joint Staff. The meeting is planned to be attended by Deputy Secretary General of the Organization Piotr Tsikhanouski.
The agenda of the meeting of the Military Committee includes discussion of the priority areas of the CSTO's activities in the military sphere proposed by the Russian Federation for the period of the chairmanship of the Organization in 2020 and development of measures for their implementation, analysis of the challenges and threats to military security in the CSTO collective security regions and other issues.
Colonel-General Anatoly Sidorov, Head of the CSTO Joint Staff, will inform the members of the Military Committee about the main results of the joint operational-strategic training "Combat Brotherhood-2019", as well as about the progress in fulfilling the orders of the Military Committee on a number of issues, including those related to improving organization of management of the CSTO Troops (collective forces) in the performance of their intended tasks, solving the problems of international aviation flights of the armed forces of the CSTO member states and creating logistic reserve in the interests of the CSTO Collective forces.
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CSTO Press Secretary Vladimir Zaynetdinov
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