PIR Center conducted an interview with Nikolay Spassky, Deputy General Director-Director of the International Activities Unit of the state Corporation Rosatom. We discussed aspects of Russian-Iranian cooperation in the framework of the JCPOA negotiations, as well as the prospects and priorities of ...
The 2010 NPT Review Conference reaffirmed the importance of the Resolution on the Middle East adopted by the 1995 Review and Extension Conference, which called upon all countries in the region to take practical steps aimed at making progress towards the establishment of a Middle EastWMD-free zone. H...
If any one of Russians was asked a decade ago about how they see the world and Russia's place in it, the answer would have focused on the need for the country to overcome the abnormal and humiliating situation in which Russia found itself at the end of the 1990s. Now that the abnormalities of that d...
On October 4, 2014, PIR Center will announce honorary awards for strengthening the WMD nonproliferation regime. We invite our colleagues from across the world to propose candidates for the nominations until September 20.
PIR Center team warmly thanks our friends, partners and colleagues for their kind New Year wishes.
«The Strategy of economic development in the CIS through the year 2020 is a conceptual document, in which the main areas of cooperation that require coordinated approaches are identified. This is important, because in the field of nuclear energy, in contrast to other areas, even basic communication between scholars requires an intergovernmental framework. For us this agreement will be very beneficial», Deputy Director General of Rosatom State Corporation for Atomic Energy Nikolai Spassky.
Doctor of Political Science, Ph.D. in History. Born in 1961. After graduation from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations in 1983 Nikolay Spassky worked in various diplomatic positions within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, including Deputy and First Deputy Director, 1992-1994; Director of the North America Department from February 1994; Member of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Board from December 1995; Joint Russian Ambassador to Italy and San Marino, 1998-2004; Assistant Secretary to the Russian Security Council, 2004-2006. Nikolay Spassky holds the diplomatic rank of Plenipotentiary Ambassador, First Class. He is also the co-founder of the Centre russe d'études politiques. Member of the Sustainable Partnership with Russia (SuPR) Group since 2009. Member of PIR Center Editorial Board.
If any one of Russians was asked a decade ago about how they see the world and Russia's place in it, the answer would have focused on the need for the country to overcome the abnormal and humiliating situation in which Russia found itself at the end of the 1990s. Now that the abnormalities of that d...