Fedor I. Ladygin (10.03.1937 – 11.12.2021). Colonel-General (ret.), formerly he was an Adviser of the Global Consulting Group. For more than 40 years, worked in the Soviet/Russian Armed Forces’ agencies. In 1992-1997, chief of the Main Intelligence Administration (GRU) of the RF Armed Forces General Staff. In 1990-1992, he participated, as the chief of the International Treaties Department of the Armed Forces General Staff, in the preparation of treaties and agreements in the area of arms control and disarmament, including: START-I; Conventional Armed Forces in Europe Treaty; Open Skies Treaty; Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction. From 2002 until his death in 2021, Fedor Ladygin remained a PIR Center Advisory Board member.
Key scientific works:
- Security Index, No. 4 (111), Winter 2014. “Reduction of strategic offensive arms: history and lessons of the first Treaty”, Fedor Ladygin.
- The military-doctrinal basis of US foreign policy. Fedor Ladygin, Sergey Afanasyev. Moscow, 2017. (To Vladimir Orlov on the day of his fiftieth birthday from the author. Fedor Ladygin. October 4, 2018).
- Security Index, No. 6 (48), November–December 1999, p. 72. “On the nature of modern external challenges and threats to Russia’s national interests and security”, Fedor Ladygin.
- Participation on June 14, 2017 in the international seminar “Breakthrough Technologies, the future of deterrence and challenges to strategic stability” in Moscow. Fedor Ladygin’s speech from page 20.
- Fedor Ladygin’s quote about PIR Center in the PIRoga issue for 2004 (page 3).
