From July 7 to 9, second staff talks were held in the Russian Federation on the organization and conduct of the CSTO Collective Rapid Reaction Forces (CRRF) command-and-staff exercise “Interaction-2026”, the special reconnaissance exercise “Poisk-2026”, and the logistics support exercise “Echelon-2026”.
In accordance with the 2026 Action Plan of the Coordinating Council of Heads of the Competent Authorities for Countering Illicit Drug Trafficking of the CSTO Member States, and as part of the Russian Federation's priorities during its 2026 CSTO Chairmanship, the sub-regional counter-narcotics operation “Kanal – Amber Coast” was conducted from June 29 to July 3, 2026. The operation was aimed at disrupting trafficking routes for narcotic drugs, their precursors and analogues, new psychoactive substances, and potent substances into the CSTO area of responsibility, neutralizing international transnational drug trafficking groups, dismantling clandestine drug production facilities, undermining the economic foundations of the drug trade, including the laundering of drug proceeds.
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.
A meeting of the CSTO Defense Ministers Council Working Group on the logistical support of the CSTO Collective Forces was held
15.11.2022
On November 15 this year, a meeting of the CSTO Defense Ministers Council Working Group on the logistical support of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces) was held via videoconferencing.
Under the general supervision of the Chairman of the Working Group - Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, Colonel General Mikhail Mizintsev, the meeting was attended by representatives of the leadership of defense agencies of the Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Republic of Tajikistan, officials from the CSTO Joint Staff and the CSTO Secretariat.
In the course of the meeting the following issues were considered: the status of internal approval of the draft Regulation on Stockpiles of Material Resources for Support of Formations of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces) and its readiness for consideration by the Council of Defense Ministers and the Committee of the CSTO Secretaries of Security Councils; the status of development and readiness to submit for internal approval the draft Recommendations on the procedure for mutual settlement for transferred material resources between the contingents of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces), and the creation on the territories of the CSTO member states of the necessary reserves of material resources for the deployment of groups of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces).
The main areas of cooperation in the field of military science on improving the system of logistical support of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces), as well as the results of a special trainings with the forces and means of logistical support of the CSTO CRRF "Echelon-2022" held in October 2022 in the territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan, were discussed.
The next meeting of the CSTO Defense Ministers Council Working Group on the issues of logistical support of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces) is scheduled to take place in the Republic of Belarus in 2023.
