Thank You, Our Friends And Partners, For New Year Greetings

MOSCOW. FEBRUARY 1, 2022. PIR PRESS. PIR Center’s team appreciates your support from the farthest corners of the world. We are glad to continue cooperation and responsible work.

Season’s cards and greetings wishing us a happy and prosperous New Year were received by PIR Center’s Director and by our PIR team from numerous individuals around the world including, but not limited to:

Yifat Amedy, Minister Counsellor of the Embassy of the State of Israel;

Anatoly Antonov, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the United States of America;

Matti Anttonen, Secretary of State for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland;

Maria Apanovich, Head of the International and Dual Degree Master’s Programs Division at MGIMO;

Ikhtiyar Aslanov, Head of ICRC Regional Delegation for Russian Federation, Belarus and Moldova;

Liberato Bautista, President of Conference of Non-Governmental Organizations in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations (CoNGO);

Veronika Bedenko, Analyst for Open Nuclear Network (ONN);

Andrey Belousov, Deputy Permanent Representative of Conference on Disarmament Affairs;

Natalia Bubnova, Researcher of Center for International Security, Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO);

Marc Cadisch, Director at Spiez Laboratory (Switzerland);

David Chikvaidze, Chef de Cabinet to the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG);

Gleb Efremov, Director General of the International Uranium Enrichment Center;

Christof Gertch, Defence Attache of Switzerland;

Kazem Jalali, Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran to Russia;

Lucien Hong, Deputy Chief of Mission in the Singapore Embassy in Moscow;

Viatcheslav Kantor, President of the Luxembourg Forum on Preventing Nuclear Catastrophe;

Michael Kunzi, Trialogue Club International member;

Cynthia Lazaroff, Documentary filmmaker & producer, founder of U.S.-Russian exchange initiatives and environmental activist;

Evgeny Maslin, Colonel General (Ret.), PIR Center Executive Board member;

Ekaterina Mikhailenko, Associate Professor of Ural Federal University (UrFU);

Ksenia Muratshina, Associate Professor of Ural Federal University (UrFU);

Laurie Patton, President of Middlebury College;

Sergey Ryabkov, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation;

Niklaus Schweizer, Honorary Consul of Switzerland in Honolulu (Hawaii);

Daria Selezneva, Junior Researcher at IMEMO RAS;

Tatiana Shakleina, Head of Department of Applied International Analysis;

Ali Soltanieh, Former Iranian Permanent Representative to the IAEA and other international organizations in Vienna, PIR Center Advisory Board Member;

Nikolai Spassky, Deputy Director General of State Atomic Energy Corporation «Rosatom»;

Si’alei van Toor, New Zealand’s Ambassador to Russia;

Anatoly Torkunov, Rector of MGIMO University;

Tatyana Valovaya, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva;

Feodor Voitolovsky, Director at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations.

PIR Center is sure that its research, projects, and events will contribute to the international security and nonproliferation regime in 2022. Wish you good health, productivity, and successful projects!