PIR Center consultant Oleg Demidov describes the role of the Verisign corporation in the DNS root zone management, comments on the process U.S. Department of Trade’s withdrawal from direct contractual relationship with the technical management of the root zone, and looks at the potential impact of c...
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It has been 15 years since the United Nations conducted a study on disarmament and nonproliferation education, as well as provided 34 recommendations on how to move it far ahead. A lot has been done in this field over this period; however, yet unresolved issues and new challenges suggest that new eff...
On July 16, 2018, President Putin and President Trump finally held their first summit in Helsinki. The summit did not yield specific agreements in arms control domain, which means the current problems will have to be addressed by next U.S.-Russia summit. Now there are only two major arms control ...
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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 destr...
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The recent PIR Center report, “Iran in the Regional and Global Perspective” offers a fresh twist on advice for negotiators as they continue to work on an agreement. As a compilation of articles by experts who met in Bangkok and Moscow in 2014 to explore the prerequisites of longer term solutions for...
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(A review of the international conference “Emerging Technologies and Global Security: An Agenda for the 21st Century”)
On September 29, 2016 Moscow hosted the international conference “Emerging Technologies and Global Security: An Agenda for the 21st Century”. The event was organized by PIR Center a...
In October 2016 Russia responded forcefully to recent U.S. policies, choosing a very sensitive area – nuclear security and nuclear energy cooperation – for that response. Moscow suspended the Plutonium Disposition Agreement and the 2006 and 2010 Protocols to that document. It also suspended the Nucl...
Over the past few months Russia has seen a growing tide of accusations of mounting cyberattacks against other countries. According to some U.S. politicians and media outlets, pro-Kremlin hackers are behind some of the most high-profile attacks, including the ones that targeted the Democratic Party, ...
The many serious ethical, legal, proliferation, security, and other concerns raised by fully autonomous weapons pose such a threat to our humanity that a preemptive ban is warranted. Retaining human control over use of force is a moral imperative and essential to promote compliance with internationa...
Addressing multiple new threats and challenges to the global security architecture in a cooperative, well-coordinated and result-oriented way is a huge task for the BRICS “Peace and Security” basket by itself. This report concentrates on five areas, both in "hard" and in "soft" security, such as fig...
Today I am going to discuss one of the responses or reactions to the main event for us - ASEAN Summit in Russia. I am going to outline the position of the author of that reaction, then I am going to outline my point of view and my attitude towards it. My partner in this dialogue is a well-known pers...