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).
"Rossiyskaya Gazeta” newspaper: Russia proposed to create a council on biological security within the CSTO
29.04.2021The Deputy Secretary of the Security Council of Russia Rashid Nurgaliyev said that the Russian Federation had initiated the creation of the Coordinating Council of authorized bodies of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) member states on biological security.
"The pandemic has strengthened cooperation among CSTO countries in countering biological threats. Thus, at Russia's initiative, it was proposed to form a Coordinating Council of authorized bodies of CSTO member states on issues of biological security, placed under the responsibility of the Committee of Secretaries of CSTO Security Councils," he noted in an interview with “Rossiyskaya gazeta” newspaper on Wednesday, April 28.
It is assumed that this body will develop joint practical measures to prevent threats to national, regional and international security associated with exposure to biological hazards.
"It is important for us to jointly analyze the situation with biothreats, exchange experience, and plan joint actions in this area. In addition, there is a long overdue need to improve the legal framework for cooperation on biological security," the Deputy Secretary of the Russian Federation Security Council added.
Nurgaliyev specified that in 2020 the secretaries of the Security Councils met in the remote format. In addition, changes had to be made to the regular work due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the format of the meetings.
"Taking into account the pandemic, the active stages of the CSTO regional anti-drug operation Channel conditionally named “Channel-Granit Bastion” and “Channel-Nevsky Shield” planned for 2020 will take place in 2021," he said.
The Deputy Secretary of the Security Council of Russia also said that due to quarantine measures, the joint operation "Illegal-2020" was postponed for 2021. He recalled that this complex was designed to work out mechanisms of interaction between law enforcement agencies and special services in the fight against illegal migration.
Earlier in June 2020, Renat Kuzmin, the Verkhovna Rada deputy from “The Opposition Platform - For Life” party, accused the Ukrainian authorities of hiding the truth about US laboratories in Ukraine.
A month later, deputes from the “The Opposition Platform - For Life” party demanded that the Security Service of Ukraine to initiate a criminal case because of the actions of American bacteriological laboratories in the country.
In turn, on April 7, 2021, the Secretary of the Security Council of Russia Nikolay Patrushev said, that Russia had good reason to believe that biological weapons were being developed in the US-controlled biolaboratories. According to his data, these laboratories mostly appear near the borders of Russia and China.
One day later, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said that the U.S. government had to provide the international community with information about the experiments being conducted in the U.S. military bio-laboratories in Ukraine and at Fort Detrick.
The Collective Security Treaty was signed on May 15, 1992, in Tashkent, the Republic of Uzbekistan, among the heads of the six of the CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States) member states. They include the Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Russia, the Republic of Tajikistan and the Republic of Uzbekistan. In September 1993, the Republic of Azerbaijan joined the CSTO, and in December of that year the Republic of Georgia and the Republic of Belarus became its members. The treaty came into force on April 20, 1994.
It aims to ensure the security of nations. The treaty also seeks to strengthen the protection of states and the whole world.
