On May 6, 2026, a meeting was held at the CSTO Secretariat between the CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykovand newly appointed Permanent and Plenipotentiary Representative of the Republic of Belarus to the CSTO Vladimir Bespaly.
28 April marks the Day of the CSTO Joint Staff. It should be recalled that on 28 April 2003, in Dushanbe, the Collective Security Council, guided by the need to establish a military staff body responsible for implementing the military component of the Collective Security Treaty, adopted the Decision “On the Establishment of the Joint Staff of the Collective Security Treaty Organization.”
On 27 April 2026, within the framework of the International Scientific and Practical Conference “Contours of a New Architecture of Collective Security: Current Issues of Information and Analytical Partnership within the CSTO,” held at MGIMO University of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, a round table entitled “Eurasian Analytical Platform: New Approaches in a New Geopolitical Reality” took place. During the event, Head of the Information and Public Relations Department of the CSTO Secretariat Yuriy Shuvalov delivered a presentation on “The Eurasian Analytical Network: A New Cognitive Architecture of Collective Security.”
The CSTO Collective Forces go to the Republic of Kazakhstan to participate in joint trainings
27.09.2022
From September 26 to October 13, 2022 on the territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan the command-staff training "Interaction-2022" with the CSTO Collective Rapid Reaction Forces, special trainings "Search-2022" with forces and means of intelligence and "Echelon-2022" with the units of Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics of the CSTO Troops (Collective Forces). will be held.
The active phase of the training will be conducted at the “Matybulak” training range from 3 to 7 October. Practical actions of the CSTO Collective Forces will be carried out in difficult conditions of mountain and desert terrain. 
The trainings will involve military contingents of the CSTO member states, task forces of the CSTO Joint Staff and the CSTO Secretariat, special-purpose force formations from the special units of the internal affairs (police), security and special services, as well as authorized bodies in the area of emergency prevention and liquidation of consequences of emergencies.
It is planned that the total number of participants in the trainings in the Republic of Kazakhstan will be more than 6,500 people and more than 850 units of military and special equipment, including aircraft, helicopters and strike drones.
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Joint press center of the CSTO trainings ОДКБ
