ABM (Treaty) – Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
ACNPD – arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament
ACNS – Australian Centre for Neutron Scattering
ADF – the Allied Democratic Forces (banned in Russia)
AES – Alliance of Sahel States
AFRCSIS – the African Center for Technology and International Security
AFRICOM – Africa Command (the USA)
AfSA – African Space Agency
AI – Artificial Intelligence
AIIB – the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank
ANSTO – Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation
ANU – Australian National University
APEC – Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
APKWS – Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System
APR – Asia-Pacific region
ASCM – Anti-ship cruise missile
ASEAN – Association of South-East Asian Nations
ASGM – Artisanal and small-scale gold mining
AU – the African Union
AUKUS – Acronym for Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States
AWS – Amazon Web Services
BOOT-R (Model) – Build-Own-Operate-Transfer-Return Model
BRI – Belt and Road Initiative
BRICS – Acronym for Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa
CAR – the Central African Republic
CAS – Centre for Accelerator Science
CCW – Certain Conventional Weapons
CEO – Chief executive officer
CERN – European Organization for Nuclear Research
CERT – Computer Emergency Response Teams
CFE (Treaty) – Conventional Armed Forces in Europe
CIA – Central Intelligence Agency
CICA – Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia
CIS – Commonwealth of Independent States
CNDP – Congrès national pour la défense du people – National Congress for the Defense of the People
CNS – Center for Nonproliferation Studies / Cold Neutron Source
COMPASS – Collection and Monitoring Platform for Advanced Situational Scenarios
COPUOS – Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space
CPC – Coalition of Patriots for Change (the Central African Republic) / the Communist Party of China (China)
CSCE – Conference for Security and Cooperation in Europe
CSTO – Collective Security Treaty Organization
CTBT – Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty
DARPA – Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
DFAT – Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Australia)
DILEMA – Designing International Law and Ethics into Military Artificial Intelligence
DOE – Department of Energy
DPR – Donetsk People’s Republic / Deputy Permanent Representative
DPRK – Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
DRC – the Democratic Republic of the Congo
E3 – Acronym for France, Germany and the United Kingdom
EAEU – Eurasian Economic Union
ECOWAS – Economic Community of West African States
EDB – the Eurasian Development Bank
EDD – Extended Deterrence Dialogue
EEU – Eurasian Economic Union
EU – the European Union
FDI – Foreign Direct Investment
FMES – Fondation méditerranéenne d’études stratégiques
FNPP – floating nuclear power plants
FRPS – First Reactor Protection System
FSB – Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation
FTA – free trade area
GCC – Gulf Cooperation Council
GCI – Global Cybersecurity Index
GCSP – Geneva Centre for Security Policy
GDP – Gross Domestic Product
GDPR – General Data Protection Regulation
GECF – Gas Exporting Countries Forum
GEP – Greater Eurasian Partnership
GGE – Group of Governmental Experts
GMO – Genetically modified organism
GSSAP – Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness Program
GW – Gigawatt
GWEO – Guided Weapons and Explosive Ordnance Enterprise
HAMAS – Islamic Resistance Movement (Ḥarakah al-Muqāwamah al-ʾIslāmiyyah)
HIFAR – High Flux Australian Reactor
HOPE – Hormuz Peace Endeavor
HQ – Headquarters
IAEA – International Atomic Energy Agency
ICANN – Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
ICBM – Intercontinental Ballistic Missile
ICF – Interregional Cooperation Forum
ICIS – Institute of Contemporary International Studies
ICJ – International Court of Justice
ICTs – Information and Communication Technologies
IDF – Israel defense forces
IDP – Internally Displaced Persons
IHES – International Hierarchy Expert Survey
IHL – international humanitarian law
IIS – International Information Security
IMA – Index of Maritime Activities
IMEMO – Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations
IMF – International Monetary Fund
IMI – Index of Maritime Instruments
IMM – Index of Maritime Might
IMR – Index of Maritime Resources
INARA (Act) – Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act
INF (Treaty) – Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty
IoN – Index of Navy
IoT – Internet of things
IPRAW – International Panel on the Regulation of Autonomous Weapons Systems
IR – International Relations
IRBM – Intermediate-range ballistic missile
IRGC – Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
ISGS – Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (banned in Russia)
ISIS – Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (banned in Russia)
ISL – in-situ leaching
ISLS – International Scientific Lunar Station
ISS – International Space Station
ITU – International Telecommunication Union
JCPOA – Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action
JINR – Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
JNIM – Jama’a Nusrat al-Islam wal Muslimin (banned in Russia)
KCNA – the Korean Central News Agency
KGB – Committee for State Security
KPA – Korean People’s Army
LAS – League of Arab States
LAWS – Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems
LPR – Lugansk People’s Republic
M23 (Movement) – March 23 Movement
MFA – Ministry of Foreign Affairs
MINUSMA – United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali
MoD – Ministry of Defense
MRBM – Medium-range ballistic missile
MUAI – Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence
MW – Megawatt
NAIIS – National Association for International Information Security
NASA – National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NATO – North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NC3I – national command, control, communication and intelligence center
NCG – Nuclear Consultative Group
NCS – National Cybersecurity Strategy
NDB – the New Development Bank
New START (Treaty) – Treaty between the United States of America and the Russian Federation on Measures for the Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms
NIC – National Intelligence Council
NLP – Natural Language Processing
NPP – Nuclear Power Plant
NPT – Non-Proliferation Treaty
NRNU MEPhI – National Research Nuclear University, the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute
NSR – Northern Sea Route
NSS – National Security Strategy
NWO – the Netherlands Research Council
OCHA – United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
ODIHR – Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
OECD – Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development
OFAC – Office of Foreign Assets Control
OHCHR – Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
OIC – Organization of Islamic Cooperation
OPAL – Open Pool Australian Lightwater Reactor
OPCW – Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
OPEC – Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries
OPEC+ – coalition of 10 world’s leading non-OPEC oil exporters, including Russia
OSCE – Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe
OSINT – Open-Source Intelligence
PAROS – Resolution 77/40 Prevention of an Arms Race in Outer Space
PPWT – Treaty on the Prevention of Placement of Weapons in Outer Space, the Threat of Use of Force against Outer Space Objects
PRC – People’s Republic of China
PrepCom – Preparatory Committee for Review Conference of Parties to Treaty on Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons
QUAD – Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (a coalition of the US, Japan, Australia, and India)
R&D (Program) – Research and Development
RAISE – Roundtable for AI, Security and Ethics (UNIDIR)
RAS – Russian Academy of Sciences
RDIF – Russian Direct Investment Fund
REAIM – Responsible Artificial Intelligence in the Military Domain
REE – rare earth elements
RF – the Russian Federation
RIAC – Russian International Affairs Council
RIC – Russia, India, and China
ROK – Republic of Korea
ROS – Russian Orbital Station
SADR – Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
SCIFiRE – the Southern Cross Integrated Flight Research Experiment
SCO – Shanghai Cooperation Organization
SDI – Strategic Defense Initiative
SIPRI – Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
SLBM – Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missile
SLV – Satellite Launch Vehicle
SMNR – Small Modular Nuclear Reactor
SMO – Special Military Operation
SMRs – Small Modular Reactors
SNF – spent nuclear fuel
SRBM – Short-range ballistic missile
SSA – Sub-Saharan Africa
SSN – Submersible Ship, Nuclear-powered
START I (Treaty) – bilateral treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union on the reduction and the limitation of strategic offensive arms
START-3 (Treaty) – nuclear arms reduction treaty between the United States and the Russian Federation with the formal name of Measures for the Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms.
SWU – separative work unit
TNW – tactical nuclear weapons
TPNW – Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
TWh – terawatt-hours
UAE – the United Arab Emirates
UAVs – Unmanned aerial vehicle
UK – the United Kingdom
UN – United Nations
UN OEWG – UN Open-ended Working Group
UNFCCC – United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
UNHCR – The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
UNIDIR – United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research
UNODA – United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs
UNOOSA – United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs
UNSC – United Nations Security Council
UNSW – University of New South Wales
USA (also U.S.) – the United States of America
USSR – the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
WMD – Weapons of Mass Destruction
WPK – Workers’ Party of Korea
WTO – the Warsaw Treaty Organization / World Trade Organization
WWI – the First World War
WWII – the Second World War
