Amid the civil war in Syria and the general potential for conflict in the Middle East in 2013, questions are being asked as to the effectiveness of international peacekeeping in this day and age. Ther
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UN Security Council adopted Resolution 1696 calling Iran to stop uranium enrichment in one month
31.07.2006
In Moscow, the USSR and the U.S. sign the Treaty of the Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms (START I).
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05.04.2014
Above all, Russia's aim is to ensure the role of intergovernmental mechanisms to oversight the management of the Internet’s “roots”. As a result, the NTIA announcement is in a strange way neither contrary to the official Russian position, nor unified with it, but somewhere in between. However, one point of criticism that could be heard now from Moscow to ICANN and the USG is that the oversight transition is belated and current actions are not decisive enough.
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Expertise :- Nonproliferation of nuclear weapons- Nuclear energy sector- Iranian nuclear program- Russian-US security relations- Russian foreign policy- Myanmar in international politics- BRICS
- Position : Program Director, International Information Security and Global Internet Governance
- Affiliation : PIR Center
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Expertise :- International legal regulation in cybersecurity area- Social media- Cyber security- National and international cyber strategies
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- Affiliation : PIR Center
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Expertise :- Political and military aspects of international security- Nonproliferation of nuclear weapons- Military cooperation- Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty- Russia-NATO relations- START Treaty- Missile Defense- Nuclear safety- Military Use of the Outer Space
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"There has never been a greater need for education in the areas of disarmament and non-proliferation, especially with regard to weapons of mass destruction, but also in the field of small arms and international terrorism. Since the end of the cold war, changing concepts of security and threat have demanded new thinking. Such new thinking will arise from those who are educated and trained today," - Report of the UN Secretary General "United Nations study on disarmament andnon-proliferation education" (А/57/124), 30 August 2002
Nonproliferation, Arms Control, and Nuclear Security Education in the CIS space - chapter that contains the most up-to-date information on the educational activities in the Post-Soviet countries.
International and national documents on the Nonproliferation, Arms Control, and Nuclear Security Education that form a basis for training of the new generation of specialists
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- Joined expert Orlov, Vladimir A.
- Joined expert Zulkharneev, Albert F.
Shaping Russia's Agenda for BRICS
After the Fortaleza Summit BRICS leaders will meet in Ufa in 2015. PIR Center project is supposed to answer, what does BRICS mean for Russia and what does Russia mean for BRICS?
International School on Global Security - 2014
PIR Center opens applications for International School on global security
PIR Center's 20th anniversary
On April 30, 2014 we turned 20. It was a long and interesting journey and we are grateful to all of our friends and partners who walked it along with us.
PIR CENTER AND ECOSOC
PIR Center has been successfully consulting the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) for 4 years already.
Disarmament, Nonproliferation, and Nuclear Security education
There has never been a greater need for education in the areas of disarmament and non-proliferation
PIR Center's Calendar for 2014
We invite you to join us and spend the year of our 20th anniversary together
PIR PRESS NEWS
29.07.2014
“For the last four years Libya has been in the grip of militias that respect no law and understand no language but violence. The July violence over groups that control the main international airport south of Tripoli is only another sad example of what the so called revolution brought to the country that used to be cradle of stability and security in the region of North Africa”, - Independent Libyan Academic, Journalist, Mustafa Fetouri.
22.07.2014
“The latest events related to the destruction of civil airliner of Malaysian airlines in Ukraine even more seriously aggravate and deepen instability and had a direct impact on the global atmosphere of security. It is difficult to predict how events will unfold after the situation around shot down airliner. Most likely the blame for the incident would lay on the separatists in the eastern Ukraine. As Moscow supports them, for Russia - this situation will be accompanied by high emotional background”, - Member of the Royal Institute of International Relations, journalist Konstantin von Eggert.
18.07.2014
«It is a great honor for me to become a member of PIR Center Executive Board. I have been cooperating with Vladimir Orlov and his colleagues for a long time. PIR Center is well known as one of the leading international analytical institutions, and I will apply all my efforts to contribute to the development of the organization», – professor of the Department of Integrated Communications at the National Research University - Higher School of Economics, PIR Center Executive Board Member Dr. Dmitry Evstafiev.