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.
The CAR CRDF are tasked with "liquidation" of illegal armed groups as part of "Rubezh-2022" training in the Republic of Tajikistan
18.10.2022
On October 18 of this year, as part of the joint training “Rubezh-2022” at the “Harbmaidon” range, the decision to conduct a joint operation was approved at the CAR CRDF command post.
Major General Abdukhoshim Gulomzoda, the Deputy Minister of Defense of the Republic of Tajikistan, Major General Viktor Lisovsky, the Deputy Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff, and representatives of defense ministries of the CSTO member states participated in the event.
Colonel Yevgeny Okhrimenko, commander of the CAR CRDF, reported on the decision to conduct joint operations, which was approved by the head of the training.
According to the legend of the training, illegal armed formations crossed the state border of a CSTO member state and seized border settlements. As part of the first stage of the training, an operational deployment of the CAR CRDF, which is tasked with eliminating illegal armed formations and restoring the situation along the state border, was carried out.
The CAR CRDF units have begun their missions in a difficult operational environment and in mountainous and desert terrain.
Military contingents of the member states of the Central Asian region and task forces from the CSTO Joint Staff and the CSTO Secretariat are taking part in practical operations at the “Harbmaidon” training range. The core of the Russian contingent consists of servicemen of the Central Military District from the 201st Military Base. The total number of the training participants is about 1,000 men and more than 300 pieces of military and special equipment, including aircraft, helicopters and strike drones.
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Joint press center of the CSTO trainings
