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 Russian military will practice hostage rescue at the CSTO "Rubezh-2022" training in the Republic of Tajikistan
18.10.2022
Units of the 201st Russian military base will support Tajikistan's special task forces in the release of hostages during the training “Rubezh-2022” of the Collective Rapid Deployment Forces of the Central Asian region.
Tactical groups supported by T-72B3M tanks will ensure the blockade of a conditional settlement and the destruction of reserves of illegal armed groups in an attempt to break through to the main forces of the "enemy”. Air support will be provided by Mi-24 attack helicopters of the Armed Forces of Russia and the Republic of Tajikistan.
Russian “Orlan-10” strike drone systems will perform corrective and objective control of target engagement.
The active phase of the joint training will take place from October 17 to 21 in southern Tajikistan.
Military contingents of the member states of the Central Asian region and task forces of the CSTO Joint Staff and the CSTO Secretariat are taking part in the practical operations. The core of the Russian contingent consists of servicemen of the Central Military District from the 201st Military Base.
The total number of training participants in the Republic of Tajikistan will be about 1,000 people and more than 300 pieces of military and special equipment, including aircraft, helicopters and strike drones.
Participants will practice the preparation and conduct of a joint CAR CRDF operation to destroy illegal armed groups that have invaded the territory of a CSTO member state.
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Joint press center of the CSTO trainings
