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.
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.
