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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February 5, 2010
“If Russia does not develop its Eastern Siberia and Far East energy resources and restructure its distribution network to satisfy Chinese demand, it could depress more than just Russia's energy exports. China serves an important role in the world economy and has become the factory floor for the worl...
The author assesses the current regime in Turkmenistan and its sustainability from the point of generation change and clan wars. He gives a detailed description of the key political and law enforcement figures in the Turkmen establishment and tries to forecast the developments in political and econo...
Yekaterinburg Declaration of the Heads of the Member States of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation
June 16, 2009
“When it comes to the Iranian nuclear dossier, there is less talk about China's interests and motives than about Russia's or the West's. So from its position behind the curtains, China can become a kind of eminence grise of the Iranian crisis,” writes Galina, who attempts to understand the actual st...
There has recently been growing interest in the issue of nuclear disarmament, nuclear-free world, but world open towards peaceful nuclear energy uses for the benefit of mankind. Such interest is to a large extent caused by the immediate task ofstrengthening the nuclear nonproliferation regime, espec...