Regular meeting of the Working Group on Electronic Warfare under the CSTO Council of Defense Ministers held in Saint Petersburg
A working meeting between CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov and Vasily Khristoforov, Director of the Institute of International Relations and Political Sciences of the Russian State University for the Humanities (RSUH) and Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, was held at the Secretariat of the Collective Security Treaty Organization.
On June 12, 2026, a conference entitled “Central Asia – the Core of the SCO: A Space of Peace and Shared Development” was held in Dushanbe under the auspices of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Tajikistan. Acting CSTO Deputy Secretary General Samat Ordabayev took part in the event.
On June 10, 2026, a regular meeting of the CSTO Council of Foreign Ministers was held in Kazan (Russian Federation) under the chairmanship of the Russian side, with the participation of CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov. CIS Deputy Secretary General Denis Trefilov and SCO Deputy Secretary General Oleg Kopylov were also invited to attend the meeting.
The active phase of the “Rock-2023” special training of the rescue units of the CSTO member states has been completed
05.09.2023
The Belarusian rescuers together with their colleagues from the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Russia and the Republic of Tajikistan took part in the demonstration part of the special training of the Collective Security Treaty Organization rescue units "Rock-2023".
The participants practiced various emergency scenarios and carried out a range of rescue activities, including:
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carrying out radiation reconnaissance of the area;
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elimination of accidents involving ionizing radiation sources on road, railway and air transport;
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carrying out rescue operations in areas of destruction of building structures and at height.
In total, over 382 people and 94 pieces of equipment were involved in the demonstration.
Valery Semerikov, the CSTO Deputy Secretary General, Alexander Volfovich, the State Secretary of the Security Council of the Republic of Belarus, and Vadim Sinyavsky, the Minister of Emergency Situations, supervised the trainings. The heads of the rescue agencies of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Russia and the Republic of Tajikistan, the CIS First Deputy Secretary General Leonid Anfimov, the Deputy Minister of Public Security of Vietnam Nguyen Van Long, and the Ambassadors Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic and Russia also watched the joint trainings.
The special training "Rock-2023" is being held for the first time on the territory of the Republic of Belarus and will be coordinated with the joint training of the CSTO Collective Rapid Reaction Forces "Interaction-2023" with a common management body - the Command of the Collective Rapid Reaction Forces.
In total, more than 630 people and 11 units of equipment took part in the "Rock-2023" special training of rescue units from the CSTO member states from 1 to 6 September.
