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.
On June 9, 2026, a delegation of the Secretariat of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, headed by CSTO Deputy Secretary General Valery Semerikov, took part in the 19th Meeting of Heads of Lead Counter-Terrorism Units of the Competent Authorities of the CIS Member States and Heads of National Structures Responsible for Coordinating Counter-Terrorism and Counter-Extremism Activities. The event was organized by the Anti-Terrorism Center of the CIS Member States.
A working meeting between CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov and Director of the Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences Kirill Babaev was held at the Secretariat of the Collective Security Treaty Organization.
From June 2 to 4, the Republic of Belarus hosted the second staff talks on the organization and conduct of the CSTO Peacekeeping Forces command-and-staff exercise “Indestructible Brotherhood 2026” and the special exercise “Barrier 2026” involving the CSTO Joint CBRN Protection and Medical Support Formation.
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.
