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 trainings in the Republic of Kazakhstan will practice the elimination of biological emergencies for the first time
29.09.2022
The CSTO Collective Forces trainings in the Republic of Kazakhstan, which began on September 26, will practice tasks and activities to deal with the consequences of a biological emergency for the first time.
A new unit within the CSTO Collective Forces will be involved in practical actions to counter a notional particularly dangerous infection of unknown origin - a joint CSTO defense and medical support unit.
The core of this unit is made up of Russian specialists from research units of the Russian Ministry of Defense using new samples of equipment. All samples have been exhibited at international exhibitions and forums.
The active phase of the command-staff training of the CSTO Collective Rapid Reaction Forces "Interaction-2022", special trainings "Search-2022" with forces and means of intelligence and "Echelon-2022" - with Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics units will be held at the Kazakh training ground "Matybulak" from 3 to 7 October.
Military contingents of the CSTO member states will practice preparation and conduct of joint operation on localization of armed conflict in the Central Asian region of collective security.
Military contingents of the CSTO member states, task forces of the Joint Staff and the CSTO Secretariat, special forces from special units of internal affairs bodies (police), security agencies and special services, as well as authorized bodies in the field of prevention and liquidation of emergency situations will participate in the
It is planned that the total number of training participants 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 unmanned aerial vehicles will be involved.
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Joint press center of the CSTO trainings
