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.
On June 18, 2026, the 24th Meeting of the Interstate Commission for Military-Economic Cooperation of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (ICMEC CSTO) was held in Minsk on the sidelines of the 3rd International Security Industry Exhibition “National Security. Belarus 2026”. The meeting was chaired by Dmitry Stefanovich, Head of the Belarusian National Section of the ICMEC and Deputy Chairman of the State Authority for Military Industry of the Republic of Belarus.
On June 18, 2026, the 2nd Military-Economic Conference of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, entitled “Development of Cooperation among the Defense Industries (Military-Industrial Complexes) of the CSTO Member States: 20 Years of Practical Cooperation”, was held in Minsk on the sidelines of the 3rd International Security Industry Exhibition “National Security. Belarus 2026”. The event brought together representatives of relevant ministries, agencies, defense enterprises, and other institutions and organizations of the CSTO member states.
Press conference of the Chief of the Joint Staff of the CSTO, Anatoly Sidorov, dedicated to the upcoming in October 2017 operational and strategic exercises "Combat Brotherhood 2017"
21.09.2017September 26, 2017 at 1:00 pm the press room was held at the Russia-Today International Press Center (Presidential Hall) conference with video connection sites in Astana, Bishkek, Yerevan, Minsk, Chief of the Joint Staff of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, Colonel-General Anatoly Sidorov on the eve of the start of joint exercises of intelligence units of the armed forces of the CSTO member states of the CSTO Collective Operational Response Forces CSTO "Interaction 2017" and Mirotvo iCal forces of the CSTO "Indestructible Brotherhood-2017", which will be held from 3 to 20 October 2017 in the territory of Russia, Armenia and Kazakhstan.
For the first time, all the exercises will be held in the framework of the single concept of the operational-strategic doctrine "Combat Brotherhood 2017".
The head of the CSTO Joint Staff spoke about the goals and objectives of the exercises, during which it is planned to work out the organization and conduct of intelligence, a joint operation to localize the armed conflict in the Caucasus region of collective security, as well as training and conducting peacekeeping operations by the CSTO Collective Peacekeeping Forces.
The exercises are conducted in accordance with the Plan of joint activities of operational and combat training of command and control forces and forces of the CSTO collective security system for 2017.
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