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.
From June 24 to 26, second staff talks were held in the Republic of Kazakhstan on the organization and conduct of the joint exercise “Rubezh-2026” with units of the Central Asian Collective Rapid Deployment Forces (CAR CRDF).
Representatives of defense agencies of the CSTO member states have discussed issues of improving the communication system
15.11.2024
On 13-14 November, a working meeting of the heads of the defense communications management bodies of the CSTO member states took place at the National Defense University of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the city of Astana. Delegations from the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Russian Federation, the Republic of Tajikistan, the CSTO Joint Staff and the CSTO Secretariat, as well as industry representatives from the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Russian Federation took part.
Colonel-General Andrei Serdyukov, Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff, addressing the participants of the working meeting via videoconferencing, noted in particular that in the current conditions joint efforts were needed aimed at forming common views and approaches in the development of the communications system, as well as at adopting decisions at the interstate level that contribute to improving the system of control of coalition groups of troops in the interests of ensuring national and collective security.
“Taking into account the experience of the joint trainings conducted, targeted work in this area at the Joint Staff has been organized and is being carried out in close cooperation with the defense agencies of the CSTO member states. Its main goal is to further improve the communication system of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces),” Colonel General Andrei Serdyukov, Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff, said.
The meeting participants have discussed the main areas of development of the organizational and technical integration of communications forces and means, options for organizing communications and data transmission using modern telecommunications means, and issues relating to the interfacing of communications equipment and means of communication. Particular attention was paid to the use in the contingents of CSTO Troops (Collective Forces) of promising communications equipment providing fundamentally new capabilities.
In the course of the working meeting, the results of the functioning of the communications system and automated troop control systems were examined, and ways of improving the technical basis for the Collective Security Treaty Organization's system of interstate information interaction were identified.
