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Main PIR Press News № 1 (59), 2025. Words of gratitude to PIR Center’s friends, colleagues, and partners for your warm Season’s Greetings

№ 1 (59), 2025. Words of gratitude to PIR Center’s friends, colleagues, and partners for your warm Season’s Greetings

February 4, 2025
PIR Alumni Community

MOSCOW. FEBRUARY 4, 2025. PIR PRESS. «The PIR Center team would like to express its gratitude to colleagues, friends, and partners for their warm greetings. We are happy to continue our fruitful cooperation in the name of peace and security», –– Dr. Vladimir Orlov, Founding Director of PIR Center and Professor at MGIMO University.

New Year and Christmas are holidays that warm the soul and bring families together! During this festive season, Dr. Vladimir Orlov and our PIR Center team received official messages of congratulations. In particular, we were honored to receive greetings from:

  • Irina Abramova, Director of the Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS);
  • Anatoly Antonov, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (retired), Advisor to the President – Chairman of the Management Board of VTB Bank;
  • Andrey Belousov, Deputy Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN Office and other International Organizations in Geneva, Deputy Head of the Delegation of the Russian Federation to the Conference on Disarmament;
  • Gleb Efremov, Director General of the International Uranium Enrichment Centre, PIR Center Advisory Board Member;
  • Victor Esin, Colonel-General (retired), Senior Fellow of the Institute for US and Canadian Studies of RAS, member of PIR Center Advisory Board;
  • Alexander Fedorov, Associate Professor, Department of Information Security, Faculty of Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence and Control Systems at Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Member of PIR Center Executive Board;
  • Heinz Gärtner, Lecturer in the Department of Political Science at the University of Vienna, Chair of the Advisory Board of the International Institute for Peace (IIP), Chair of the Advisory Committee for Strategy and Security Policy of the Scientific Commission at the Austrian Armed Forces (BMLV);
  • Vladimir Kuchinov, Associated Professor of the Department of International Relations of the Institute of International Relations at the National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, PIR Center Advisory Board Member;
  • Vinay Kumar, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of India to the Russian Federation;
  • Krystyna Marty, Ambassador of Switzerland to the Russian Federation;
  • Ekaterina Mikhailenko, Associate Professor of the Department of Theory and History of International Relations at UrFU;
  • Vasily Pavlov, Head of Office for International Security and Arms Control of the Multilateral Diplomacy Directorate of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus;
  • Tariq Rauf, Director of SIPRI’s Disarmament, Arms Control and Non-proliferation Program, Board Member of Atomic Reporters, and Member of the PIR Center Advisory Board;
  • Sergey Ryabkov, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation;
  • Nikolai Spassky, Deputy Director General of the State Corporation on Atomic Energy «Rosatom»;
  • Vsevolod Sviridov, Deputy Director of the HSE University Center for African Studies;
  • Ivan Timofeev, Director General of the Russian International Affairs Council;
  • Aleksandr Trofimov, Deputy Director of the Foreign Policy Planning Department of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs;
  • Bakhtiyar Tuzmukhamedov, Professor of International Law, Honored Lawyer of the Russian Federation, Vice-President of the Russian Association of International Law, Member of the International Committee against Torture;
  • Venkatesh Varma, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of India to the Russian Federation (2018–2021), Distinguished Fellow at the Vivekananda International Foundation, Visiting Faculty at the Kautilya School of Public Policy;
  • Victor Vasiliev, Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO);
  • Feodor Voitolovsky, Director of the Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Russian Academy of Sciences (IMEMO RAS);
  • Elena Volchinskaya, Chief Specialist of the Legal Department of the Federal Notary Chamber.

In addition, we received congratulations from several organizations and teams, including:

  • Center for the National Interest;
  • Center of Research for Strategic and Security Studies NatStrat (NatStrat India);
  • Crown Center for Middle East Studies;
  • Embassy of the Republic of India to Russia;
  • EXCEL Group;
  • Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP);
  • International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC);
  • International Nuclear Energy Academy;
  • Kommersant Daily;
  • Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey;
  • National Committee for BRICS Research;
  • Pacific Forum International;
  • Russian Embassy to Kazakhstan;
  • Students of PIR Center and MGIMO University Master`s Program International Security;
  • The Conference of NGOs in Consultative Relationship with the UN (CoNGO).
  • The MGIMO Endowment;
  • The Middle East Initiative;
  • The Political Department of the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany to Russia;
  • The United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG);
  • United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR);
  • Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation (VCDNP).

PIR Center appreciates all friends and colleagues for their warm congratulations and best wishes! At PIR Center, we strongly believe that in the new year 2025, cooperation in science, research, and analytics will continue in the context of strengthening global security and fostering dialogue among expert community representatives worldwide.

Wishing you a productive year and great achievements in 2025!

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