28 April marks the Day of the CSTO Joint Staff. It should be recalled that on 28 April 2003, in Dushanbe, the Collective Security Council, guided by the need to establish a military staff body responsible for implementing the military component of the Collective Security Treaty, adopted the Decision “On the Establishment of the Joint Staff of the Collective Security Treaty Organization.”
On 27 April 2026, within the framework of the International Scientific and Practical Conference “Contours of a New Architecture of Collective Security: Current Issues of Information and Analytical Partnership within the CSTO,” held at MGIMO University of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, a round table entitled “Eurasian Analytical Platform: New Approaches in a New Geopolitical Reality” took place. During the event, Head of the Information and Public Relations Department of the CSTO Secretariat Yuriy Shuvalov delivered a presentation on “The Eurasian Analytical Network: A New Cognitive Architecture of Collective Security.”
The CSTO Secretariat held its first meeting of the Permanent Council in 2026
13.01.2026
On 13 January 2026, the Secretariat of the Collective Security Treaty Organization held the first meeting of the CSTO Permanent Council this year.
In accordance with the established rotation procedure, the Permanent and Plenipotentiary Representative of the Russian Federation to the CSTO, Viktor Vasilyev, assumed the chairmanship of the Permanent Council for 2026.
The meeting was attended by the CSTO Secretary General, Talatbek Masadykov. He emphasized the need to complete the coordination of the action plan for the implementation of the decisions adopted at the November 2025 session of the CSTO Collective Security Council, as well as the priority areas of the CSTO’s activities during the chairmanship of the Russian Federation, with a view to their subsequent approval by the Chairman of the CSTO Collective Security Council, Vladimir Putin.
The participants also discussed current issues related to the Organization’s activities in connection with the commencement of the Russian Federation’s chairmanship of the CSTO in 2026.
