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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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 ...
Some time ago the U.S. administration, including their former President Barack Obama, has voiced more and more often the idea that it would be desirable to continue strategic offensive reductions. There are several reasons why the United States are so interested in intensifying nuclear arms reduct...
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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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The future of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) may soon be clarified. There is little doubt in Tehran that US will withdraw from the JCPOA. PIR Center consultant Andrey Baklitskiy, who had recently visited Teheran for participating in Russian-Iranian Dialogue, shares his view on the fu...
_2020~1.PDF On April 24, 2018 the Director of the Foreign Ministry Department for Security Affairs and Disarmament and the Head of the Russian delegation Vladimir Yermakov presented a statment in Geneva during the Second session of the Preparatory Committee for the 2020 NPT Review Process.
Former Director of Department of Disarmament and Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy of the Egyptian MFA (1992-1999), Member of the Advisory Board of the UN Secretary General for Disarmament Matters (2003-2009) Amb. Mahmoud Karem gave an exclusive interview for Yaderny Kontrol and spoke on the perspecti...
This year, the United Nations Study on Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Education is turning 15. This document and the partial implementation of its 34 recommendations have helped move education in this sphere forward. The world has witnessed the appearance of several specialized training centres a...
There is lecture by Hans Blix including Q&A session
There are four blocks of issues that Ms Nakamitsu highlighted in her lecture for the Dual Degree master's program's students: «Why Disarmament today?», «Disarmament that can actually safe lives», Nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament, «Frontier issues coming to our front door»