On August 31, 2026, on the sidelines of the SCO Summit in Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic, CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov met with CIS Secretary General Sergey Lebedev.
A meeting of the Working Group of the Coordination Council of Heads of Competent Authorities on Combating Illicit Drug Trafficking (CCHN) on organizing international anti-drug operations within the CSTO framework was held in Aktau, Republic of Kazakhstan.
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.
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.
