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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In May 2012 China and the United States held the fourth round of bilateral strategic and economic dialogue. The two sides agreed to begin strategic consultations on various Asian problems. This means that the Asia Pacific region is now at the center of strategic dialogue between the two countries. B...
Participation in the integration processes in Asia Pacific means, first and foremost, economic cooperation. In the period from July to September 2010 trade with the APEC countries accounted for 23.3%of Russian foreign trade. (Trade with the EU constituted 49.5% and with the CIS 13.8%). The figure ha...
Myanmar is facing significant new political developments. Moreover, its international situation has already improved. In 2014 Myanmar will take over the rotating chairmanship of ASEAN and host an East Asia Summit meeting. These and other developments indicate that the country of 60 million is openin...
Presentation for the briefing on the Shanghai Cooperation Organization within the framework of second meeting of the Study group on cybrsecurity under the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific (CSCAP). Bengaluru, India, October 12, 2012.
Before the earthquake in Japan, Chinese nuclear power generation was expected to reach 86 GW by 2020.
Such a giant nuclear leap (25 reactors are already being built, and even more are planned) requires meticulous planning and preparation. Let us then consider the prospects for China's "big nuclear le...
This is the considered judgment of the Japanese nuclear energy expert. In an era when the nuclear giants of various states are merging, combining the capabilities of Japan, Russia, and Kazakhstan could result in a new international conglomerate able to compete at the global level.