In the complicated geopolitical situation that is currently developing on the Eurasian continent, a deep and comprehensive analysis by politicians and the expert community of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization’s activities and its development prospects is becoming extremely actual and valuable. In order to explore the existing opportunities and find solutions to the problems facing the SCO, as well as to exchange views between experts and politicians of the SCO family countries, the First Sochi International Forum was held in 2016, after which Russian and foreign participants of the Forum proposed in the Final Document to make it permanent and to hold it at least once every two years.