On October 30, 2026, the results of the “Channel-Caspian Lighthouse” subregional anti-drug operation were summed up as part of the implementation of the 2026 Plan of Key Activities of the Coordinating Council of Heads of Competent Drug Control Authorities of CSTO Member States (CCHCDCA).
From October 18 to 23 this year, in accordance with the 2026 Plan for the Joint Training of Command and Control Bodies and Formations of Forces and Assets of the Collective Security System of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, the “Cobalt-2026” special exercise was held at the Magob training range of the Special Purpose Units Training Center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Tajikistan.
An international scientific and practical conference entitled “Greater Eurasia: Institutions, Development, Cooperation” was held at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, jointly organized with the Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ICCA RAS). CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov took part in the conference.
A working meeting between CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov and Kazem Jalali, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the Russian Federation, was held at the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the Russian Federation.
An international scientific and practical conference entitled “Transformation of the Global Security System and the Shaping of a Eurasian Security Framework” was held at Moscow State Linguistic University (MSLU).
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.
