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.
On January 30, 2020, a briefing will be held by Anatoly Sidorov, the Head of the CSTO Joint Staff
27.01.2020
January 30, 2020 at 11:00 a.m. at the International Press Center of the MIA “Russia Today” (Presidential Hall), a briefing will be held by the Chief of the Joint Staff of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, Colonel General Anatoly Sidorov, with video connections to sites in Bishkek, Yerevan and Minsk.
Theme of the briefing: "The results of the joint training of the governing bodies and the formation of forces and means of the Collective Security Treaty Organization of the Collective Security Treaty Organization for 2019 and the tasks for 2020." During the briefing, the Head of the CSTO Joint Staff will summarize the main results of the development of the military component of the Collective Security Treaty Organization last year, talk about the threats that the collective forces are preparing to confront, and about the tasks that Russia’s CSTO presidency faces collective forces.
Media accreditation through the press center of the MIA “Russia-Today”
Tel: +7 (495) 645-6472 (multi-channel) E-mail: accreditation@rian.ru
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The CSTO Press Secretary Vladimir Zaynetdinov
+7495-795-27-10,
+7495-621-33-23-tel/fax
