85 years ago, the Great Patriotic War began. The war machine of Nazi Germany launched a treacherous attack against Soviet cities and villages and committed unprecedented atrocities against Soviet citizens. The peoples of the Soviet Union rose to defend their common Motherland and paid an enormous price for peace, freedom, and the right to live on their own land.
On June 17–18, 2026, CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov visited sections of the State Border of the Republic of Belarus with Poland and Lithuania.
On June 18, 2026, the 24th Meeting of the Interstate Commission for Military-Economic Cooperation of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (ICMEC CSTO) was held in Minsk on the sidelines of the 3rd International Security Industry Exhibition “National Security. Belarus 2026”. The meeting was chaired by Dmitry Stefanovich, Head of the Belarusian National Section of the ICMEC and Deputy Chairman of the State Authority for Military Industry of the Republic of Belarus.
On June 18, 2026, the 2nd Military-Economic Conference of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, entitled “Development of Cooperation among the Defense Industries (Military-Industrial Complexes) of the CSTO Member States: 20 Years of Practical Cooperation”, was held in Minsk on the sidelines of the 3rd International Security Industry Exhibition “National Security. Belarus 2026”. The event brought together representatives of relevant ministries, agencies, defense enterprises, and other institutions and organizations of the CSTO member states.
Issues of improving the communications system were discussed at a working meeting of the heads of the defense communications management bodies of the CSTO member states
10.04.2025
On 8-10 April, a working meeting of the heads of the defense communications management bodies of the CSTO member states is being held in Bishkek, the capital of the Kyrgyz Republic. Delegations from the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Russian Federation, the Republic of Tajikistan, the CSTO Joint Staff and industry representatives are taking part in the meeting.
In his video message to the participants in the working meeting, Colonel General Andrei Serdyukov, Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff, drew attention to the need for joint efforts to prepare decisions at the interstate level that would help to improve the command and control system of coalition groupings of troops and to form common views and approaches to the development of the communications system as the technical basis of the command and control system. He also noted that targeted work in this area in the Joint Staff was organized and carried out in close cooperation with the defense departments of states.
In the course of the working meeting, the meeting participants discussed issues related to the interfacing of equipment and means of communication, taking into account the experience of contemporary local conflicts, the improvement of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces) communications system and information cooperation. Particular attention is being paid to the consideration of the use in the contingents of CSTO Troops (Collective Forces) of promising means of communication that provide fundamentally new possibilities for organizing communications.
The working meeting resulted in the adoption of proposals aimed at improving the functioning of the communication system, and defined areas for improving the technical basis of the CSTO interstate information interaction system.
