A working meeting between Imangali Tasmagambetov, Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, and Sergey Pospelov, Executive Secretary of the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly, took place in Moscow.
From October 14 to 19, units participating in joint trainings with the CSTO Peacekeeping Forces “Indestructible Brotherhood-2025” and the special training with the joint formation of NBC protection and medical support of the CSTO “Barrier-2025” are regrouping in the Republic of Tajikistan.
On October 13, 2025, in Moscow, the CSTO Secretary General Imangali Tasmagambetov met with Vyacheslav Volodin, the Chairman of the Russian State Duma and the Chairman of the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly, where they had a detailed exchange of views on the situation in the Organization's area of responsibility and a number of other regions.
In accordance with the decision of the 28th meeting of the Coordination Council of Heads of Competent Authorities of CSTO Member States on Combating Illegal Migration, the CSTO official website has published information and reference material from the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs explaining the key changes in the procedure for foreign citizens staying in Russia.
Sputnik Armenia: CSTO countries’ defense departments were provided with the information regarding the Russia’s experience on fighting against coronavirus in Italy
16.04.2020Sputnik Armenia: CSTO countries’ defense departments were provided with the information regarding the Russia’s experience on fighting against coronavirus in Italy.
The specialists discussed countermeasures to fight against the new coronavirus infection and provided the participants with the information related to the relevant experience of the Russian military service men in the Italy and Serbia.
YEREVAN, Apr 16 - Sputnik. The CSTO Spokesman's Service reports that the delegations of the defense departments of the CSTO member states have discussed the issues related to the countermeasures against the new type of coronavirus COVID-19 to prevent the further contagion.
The video-conference for the CSTO defense department representatives took place on the Thursday in the CSTO Crisis Response Center. Heads of the CSTO Military Medical Service departments conducted additional out-of-schedule consultations related to the countermeasures to fight the pandemic.
Participants of the consultations have paid special attention to the activity control issues related to the observation mode and tactics of managing serious patients.
Colonel-General Anatoly Sidorov, Head of the CSTO Joint Staff, noted that the experts had managed to discuss the prevention and control of a new coronavirus infection and to familiarize the consultation participants with the experience of the medical service of the Ministry of Defense of Russia, obtained through close cooperation with the civilian health of the Russian Federation, as well as during the provision of assistance by Russian troops in Italy and Serbia.
The meeting participants agreed to continue interaction in this format to analyze information on the situation related to the spread of coronavirus and to quickly exchange experience between specialists from the defense departments of the CSTO member states.
In addition to maintaining the health of service men and members of their families, the defense departments are responsible to maintain the survivability and military’s preparedness.
The meeting was also attended by representatives of the CSTO Secretariat and the Russian Foreign Ministry.
Russian specialists have cured 8 patients in Bergamo - video from the epicenter of the events
Starting on March 22 to the morning of March 25, 15 aircraft arrived only in Italy, which brought there about 100 Russian military virologists and specialists of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation in the field of epidemiology, eight medical and nursing teams, as well as equipment for diagnosis and disinfection. Russian specialists work in one of the most affected areas of the coronavirus pandemic in northern Italy - in the city of Bergamo and its suburbs.
Translators of the Russian Defense Ministry are constantly on duty with the medical staff of the medical and nursing teams that carry out the sanitization
