MOSCOW. FEBRUARY 12, 2026. PIR PRESS. «PIR Center team sincerely thanks friends, colleagues, and partners worldwide for their warm words, kind wishes, and congratulations. We deeply appreciate this support and look forward to the future with confidence, as we continue working together to promote peace, stability, and international security», – Dr. Vladimir Orlov, Founding Director of PIR Center and Professor at MGIMO University.
New Year and Christmas are special occasions marked by warmth, hope, and a spirit of unity. During the holiday season, Dr. Vladimir Orlov and PIR Center team received numerous congratulations, official greetings, and kind wishes from friends, colleagues, and partners in Russia and abroad. Among others, greetings were received from:
- Anatoly Antonov – Professor, Department of Applied Analysis of International Problems, MGIMO University;
- Alexey Arbatov, Dr., Academician – Head of the Center for International Security at the IMEMO RAS; PIR Center Advisory Board Member;
- Alexander Balebanov – Director General of Alliancetransatom;
- Andrey Belousov – Ambassador-at-Large, PIR Center Advisory Board Member;
- Marat Berdyev – Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ambassador-at-Large, G20 Sous-Sherpa, APEC Senior Official, Chief Coordinator for the Greater Eurasian Partnership, PIR Center Advisory Board Member;
- Dmitry Danilov, Dr. – professor of the Department of Integration Processes, MGIMO University, Head of the Department for European Security at the Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences, PIR Center Advisory Board Member;
- Gleb Efremov – Head of the Department of New Technology Development, JUSTA Group of Companies, PIR Center Advisory Board Member;
- Dmitry Feoktistov, Dr. – Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to Argentina, PIR Center Advisory Board Member;
- Heinz Gärtner, Dr., Prof. – Chair of the Advisory Board, International Institute for Peace (IIP), Chair of the Advisory Committee for Strategy and Security Policy, Scientific Commission of the Austrian Armed Forces (BMLV);
- Oded Joseph – Ambassador of the State of Israel to the Russian Federation;
- Oleg Khodyrev – Deputy Head of the Secretariat of the Deputy Chairperson of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation;
- Andrey Malov, Dr. – Leading Expert at the Institute for International Studies, MGIMO University, PIR Center Advisory Board Member;
- Andrey Malyugin – Deputy Director of the Department for Nonproliferation and Arms Control of Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation;
- Ekaterina Mikhailenko – Associate Professor at the Department of Theory and History of International Relations of Ural Federal University (UrFU);
- Vasily Pavlov – Head of the Office for International Security and Arms Control of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus;
- Tariq Rauf – Independent Expert, former Head of Verification and Security Policy Coordination, Office reporting to Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Alternate Head of the IAEA Delegation to NPT Review Conferences, PIR Center Advisory Board Member;
- Sergey Ryabkov – Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation;
- Keiichi Shima – Minister and Head of the Political Section of the Embassy of Japan in the Russian Federation;
- Nikolai Spassky – Deputy Director General of the State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom;
- Bernard Šrajner – Counsellor-Minister of the Republic of Slovenia in Moscow;
- Vsevolod Sviridov – Deputy Director of the Centre for African Studies at the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs of HSE University;
- Ivan Timofeev – Director General of the Russian International Affairs Council;
- Pyotr Topychkanov – Head of the Section for New Challenges in South and Southeast Asia at the Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO RAS);
- Victor Vasiliev – Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the CSTO, PIR Center Advisory Board Member;
- Anna Vassilieva – Professor at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey (MIIS);
- Vladimir Voronkov – Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (retired), Independent Expert, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations (2017-2025), PIR Center Advisory Board Member;
- Andrey Yarnykh – Head of Strategic Projects at the Kaspersky Lab, PIR Center Advisory Board Member;
- Viktor Yesin, Dr. – Colonel General (retired), Advisor to the Commander of the Strategic Missile Forces of Russia, Associate Professor at the Faculty of World Politics of HSE University, Associate Professor at the School of World Politics of Lomonosov Moscow State University, PIR Center Advisory Board Member.
In addition, we received congratulations from several organizations and teams, among others:
- Embassy of Italy in Moscow;
- Embassy of Japan in Moscow;
- Geneva Centre for Security Policy, GCSP;
- International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC);
- International Institute for Middle East and Balkan Studies (IFIMES);
- The Middle East Initiative;
- The Political Department of the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany to Russia.
PIR Center sincerely thanks all friends and colleagues for their warm congratulations and kind wishes. We are confident that in 2026, collaboration in research and analysis will persist, aiming to strengthen international security and foster constructive dialogue among experts from various countries.
We wish our partners a productive year filled with professional successes and new achievements in 2026!
Кeywords: PIR Community
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