On May 20, consultations of representatives (experts) of the defense agencies of the CSTO member states aimed at improving air defense and developing the CSTO Collective Aviation Forces were held via videoconference at the CSTO Joint Staff headquarters.
On May 20–21, 2026, a Coordination Meeting of Chief Narcologists of the CSTO member states was held in St. Petersburg within the framework of the Russian Federation’s chairmanship in the Collective Security Treaty Organization.
On May 19, 2026, Acting CSTO Deputy Secretary General Samat Ordabayev met in Vienna with Director of the Division for Operations of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Bo Mathiasen.
On May 19, 2026, an international round table on the topic “CSTO: together for strengthening international peace and stability” was held at the Hofburg Palace in Vienna, Austria, on the sidelines of the OSCE Forum for Security Co-operation in Europe.
On May 18, CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov, together with the heads of the diplomatic missions of the CSTO member states in Vienna, took part in a solemn wreath and flower-laying ceremony at the monument to the Soviet Liberator Soldier at Schwarzenbergplatz.
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.
