From June 24 to 26, second staff talks were held in the Republic of Kazakhstan on the organization and conduct of the joint exercise “Rubezh-2026” with units of the Central Asian Collective Rapid Deployment Forces (CAR CRDF).
On June 23, 2026, a ceremonial event was held at the Advanced Training Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation to mark the 20th anniversary of the CSTO Collective Security Council's decision granting the Institute the status of the Basic Educational Institution for Continuing Professional Education of law enforcement and special service personnel of the CSTO member states in the fields of counterterrorism, combating extremism, illicit drug trafficking, illegal migration, and other forms of transnational organized crime, as well as for the training of specialists for peacekeeping missions and teaching staff of educational institutions.
85 years ago, the Great Patriotic War began. The war machine of Nazi Germany launched a treacherous attack against Soviet cities and villages and committed unprecedented atrocities against Soviet citizens. The peoples of the Soviet Union rose to defend their common Motherland and paid an enormous price for peace, freedom, and the right to live on their own land.
On June 17–18, 2026, CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov visited sections of the State Border of the Republic of Belarus with Poland and Lithuania.
TASS: The CSTO Acting Secretary General called for the creation of rules of conduct under the UN auspices in the information space. Collective efforts in the area of information security should be joined, Valery Semerikov said.
18.07.2019VIENNA, July 17. /TASS/. The Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) considers it necessary to join efforts in the area of information security in order to promptly develop, under the UN auspices, rules and standards of conduct in the information space. This was announced on Wednesday by the CSTO Acting Secretary General Valery Semerikov. On the OSCE Forum for Security Cooperation he made a statement on “The CSTO activities in support of the OSCE commitments to ensure politico-military aspects of security”.
“We consider it necessary to join collective efforts in the area of information security. We attach particular importance to the promotion of the development and early adoption of universal rules, standards and principles of responsible conduct in the information space under the UN auspices,” Semerikov said.
He also informed that the CSTO is working on the formation of a Single list of organizations recognized as terrorist in the territory of their member states. The draft “Plan of collective actions of the CSTO member states in implementing the UN Global anti-terrorism strategy for 2019-2021” is undergoing the established procedure for approval by the CSTO supreme governing bodies.
"We consider it important to step up the OSCE efforts to counter new transnational and transboundary challenges and threats, especially terrorism based on the "Code of Conduct for a Peace Free of Terrorism ", which was initiated by the Republic of Kazakhstan at the opening of the 73rd session of the UN General Assembly and which participants are already 82 states ," noted the CSTO Acting Secretary General .
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