Video message from Valery Semerikov, the CSTO Deputy Secretary General, to participants in a thematic event organized by Russia “on the margins” of the 69th session of the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs “Regional Efforts to Combat Drug Crime: Best Practices of the CSTO, the SCO, and the CIS”
A working meeting chaired by Lieutenant General Anatoly Yakovlev, Head of the CSTO Troop Deployment Planning Department (Collective Forces), was held with the participation of representatives of the defense ministries of the Republic of Belarus (via videoconferencing), the Russian Federation, and the CSTO Joint Staff.
On 5 March 2026, a working meeting was held at the Secretariat of the Collective Security Treaty Organization between CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Belarus to the Russian Federation Yuri Seliverstov.
On 4 March, Secretary of the Security Council of the Kyrgyz Republic Adilet Orozbekov presented certificates of advanced training in the field of “Information Security of Automated Systems” to civil servants.
The Protocol amending the Agreement on Cooperation of the CSTO Member States in the Field of Transportation of Military and Other Formations, Their Movable Property, as well as Military Products, and the Protocol amending the Agreement on the Status of Formations of Forces and Means of the CSTO Collective Security System, signed during the session of the CSTO Collective Security Council in Astana on 28 November 2024, have entered into force.
About 600 Russian military personnel will take part in the CSTO "Rubezh-2022" training in the Republic of Tajikistan
About 600 Russian servicemen will take part in a joint training with the Collective Rapid Deployment Forces of the Central Asian region "Rubezh-2022" in the Republic of Tajikistan.
The core of the Russian contingent is formed by units of the 201st Military Base, and more than 150 units of weapons, special and military equipment will be involved.
The active phase of the trainings will take place from 17 to 21 October in southern Tajikistan. Military contingents of the member states of the CSTO Central Asian region, task forces of the CSTO Joint Staff and the CSTO Secretariat will also take part in the practical actions.
The participants will practice preparing and conducting a joint military operation to block and destroy illegal armed groups that have invaded the territory of a Collective Security Treaty Organization member state.
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Joint press center of the CSTO training