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...
On April 8, 2010, the day when the New START Treaty was signed, PIR Center in collaboration with the Ploughshares Fund established the Sustainable Partnership with Russia (SuPR) Group. The SuPR Group's main objective was to support continuing and long-lasting success in the efforts by the Russian Federation and the United States to work as partners on two of the most important issues on the global security agenda: nuclear nonproliferation and nuclear disarmament. All members of the SuPR Group were leading experts on U.S.-Russian relations, nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament. The Group also included one media representative from each side to make its work transparent for the public in both countries.
The Group met on February 2-3, 2011 in Gstaad, Switzerland, and on December 6-7, 2011 in Washington D.C. and produced a number of analytical materials.
SuPR group implemented its goals and was dissolved in July of 2014. Below are the materials produced by the group:
Policy Memos of Washington Meeting
Evgeny Buzhinskiy - What Should be Changed in Bilateral Military-political Dialogue in 2012 to Achieve More Transparency
Michael Elleman - Next Steps in the U.S.-Russia Arms Control Dialogue: Intermediate-Range Ballistic Missile Flight-Test Ban in the Middle East
David Holloway - Strategic Stability and U.S.-Russian Relations
Vladimir Kuchinov - Practically Implementing 123 Agreement Between Russia and the US in 2012 What are Political and Economic Dividends (if any)
Vladimir Orlov - 2012 Conference on the WMD-Free Zone on the Middle East: How Russia and United States Should Work Together
Steven Pifer - “Reset” in the US-Russian Relations and Missile Defence
Igor Zevelev - Approaching Election Year How to Muddle Through
Mikhail Yakushev - International Information Security and Global Internet Governance in US-Russian Relations Expert's View
Policy Memos of Gstaad Meeting
Amb. Martin - The NPT on Dawn of a New Review Cycle - Out To Move Forward In Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament, a View from Switzerland
Prof. Evgeny Y. Satanovskiy - Non-Proliferation Regime and Nuclear Problems of Greater Middle East
Amb. Mikhail N. Lysenko - The Middle East and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime
Prof. Yury E. Fedorov - The US–Russia Nuclear Arms Control Gloomy Prospects
Dr. Igor A. Zevelev - Sustainable Partnership with Russia
Ms. Sharon Squassoni - The Middle East and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime
Steven Pifer - Next Steps in U.S.-Russian Nuclear Arms Reductions
Dr. Vladimir A. Orlov - Next Steps for Russia and the United States on Nuclear Disarmament
David E. Hoffman - Rethinking Nuclear Deterrence
Dr. Leonid E. Gankin - Media and Relations Between Russia and the United States
Joseph Cirincione - 2011 Priorities of Us Non-Government Groups on Arms Control and Nuclear Disarmament
Gen. Evgeny P. Buzhinskiy - Reduction of Tactical Nuclear Weapons and Non-Deployed Strategic Nuclear Weapons
Anatoly Anin - Conventional Prompt Global Strike Weapons and Their Impact on Strategic Stability
Matrix
Matrix of SuPR Group Recommendations
Summary of the Gstaad meeting
Recommendations
SuPR Gstaad Meeting Recommendations (in Russian)
