On July 15, 2026, the High-Level Regional Meeting “Enhancing Capacities to Prevent the Supply of Weapons to Terrorists in Central Asia” was held in Moscow, organized by the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism with the participation of the Russian side.
On July 14, 2026, a working meeting was held at the CSTO Secretariat between CSTO Deputy Secretary General Valery Semerikov and UN Assistant Secretary-General Alexander Zuev.
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.
SB-Belarus Today: "We were taught to survive." A special course for journalists from leading media outlets of the CSTO member states was held in Moscow region
14.01.2019Posted January 12 10:33
A source:
Assignment: Survive
They deliberately risk their lives for the sake of people's right to information. Increasingly, working in areas of armed conflict, reporters are becoming the number one goal for militants. July 2018: In the Central African Republic, journalists died: Orhan Dzhemal, Alexander Rastorguev and Kirill Radchenko. April 2018: in the Daman region of the Afghan province of Kandahar, reporters from foreign and local publications were killed because of the explosion.
November 2015: in Syria, a car with the RT film crew came under fire from the militants, one anti-tank guided missile blew up next to it, the second hit the car. Roman Kosarev was among the wounded. I met him and other colleagues at a recent training seminar in the Moscow Region All-Russian Institute for Advanced Studies of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. We were taught to survive. This course is for the first time for representatives of the media specializing in counterterrorism in the CSTO format.
