On January 19, 2021, Dr. Vladimir A. Orlov, Director of the PIR Center, gave an interview to Security Index journal.
SECURITY INDEX: In your recent op-ed column, co-authored with Sergey Semenov and published by Kommersant Daily, you stated that “Russia and the United States, as major nuclear-weapo...
Now when the U.S. presidential elections are over the fate of the START Treaty and nuclear arms control, in general, has become clearer.
The New START treaty is set to expire on February 5, 2021, and only a few months ago there was little doubt that it would be the end of it. The Trump administratio...
As one of its first security policy decisions, the Biden administration agreed to extend the New START Treaty for five years with no conditions. The New START Treaty represents one of the last remaining vestiges of international arms control architecture and one of the few areas of potentially prod...
"We are neighbours. Russia is part of Greater Europe. The European Union is a major player in the European space, but it is not the whole of Europe, n...
Shaping the next generation of experts is the main goal of the education and training system on nonproliferation, created and supported by PIR Center...
The recent PIR Center report, “Iran in the Regional and Global Perspective” offers a fresh twist on advice for negotiators as they continue to work on an agreement. As a compilation of articles by experts who met in Bangkok and Moscow in 2014 to explore the prerequisites of longer term solutions for...
The book “The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy” by David Hoffman is a true documentary thriller focusing on the most difficult period of the 20th century. The international situation at that time is described as teetering on the brink of a nuclear world ...
In the interview with Jamie Kwong, the Stanton Pre-Doctoral Fellow in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, we talked about the P5 Process prospects, non-nuclear-weapon states position, the future of U.S. chair from the U.S. side.
What problems do you think t...
In the interview with Tariq Rauf, PIR Center Advisory Board member, Former Head of the Verification and Security Policy Coordination Office at the IAEA, we talked about the outcomes of the second session of the WMD free zone, Iran’s position and prospects for NPT Review Conference scheduled for Janu...
Interview with Emily Enright, a Policy Fellow and Emerging Voices Network Coordinator of the British American Security Information Council (BASIC), about the prospects, challenges, and place of the P5 process in the run-up of the RevCon 2022 from the British side.
What problems do you think the nucl...
In the interview with a senior fellow Tong Zhao in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, about problems and prospects of the P5 process, its influence on the RevCon 2022, AUKUS, and the U.S.-China competition from the Chinese side.
What problems do you think t...
The virtual summit between Presidents Putin and Biden of December 7, 2021, did not address strategic stability and nonproliferation issues in detail as both presidents concentrated on Ukraine-related topics. Yet, strategic stability dialogue and prevention of proliferation of nuclear weapons remain ...
On December 2-3, the representatives of the Five Nuclear Weapons State, or P5, met in Paris to discuss the preparations for the upcoming 10th NPT Review Conference (4-28 January 2022) and related matters. In the Final Joint communique the P5 recalled the instrumental role of the NPT. In the intervie...