PIR Center consultant Oleg Demidov describes the role of the Verisign corporation in the DNS root zone management, comments on the process U.S. Department of Trade’s withdrawal from direct contractual relationship with the technical management of the root zone, and looks at the potential impact of c...
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Four principles of strategic stability
It is possible, at least conceptually, to sketch out a set of broad principles for U.S-Russian strategic stability – those principles are rooted in Cold War legacies but need to be adapted, revisited, and broadened in light of changing strategic capabilities a...
On July 16, 2018, President Putin and President Trump finally held their first summit in Helsinki. The summit did not yield specific agreements in arms control domain, which means the current problems will have to be addressed by next U.S.-Russia summit. Now there are only two major arms control ...
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The dust is slowly settling after the announcement of the U.S. presidential election results – but the question of “Who is Mr. Trump?” remains open. The answer will determine the outlook for U.S.-Russian relations for years to come.
Vladimir Orlov, director of the Geneva-based Centre russe d’etudes ...
In October 2016 Russia responded forcefully to recent U.S. policies, choosing a very sensitive area – nuclear security and nuclear energy cooperation – for that response. Moscow suspended the Plutonium Disposition Agreement and the 2006 and 2010 Protocols to that document. It also suspended the Nucl...
Over the past few months Russia has seen a growing tide of accusations of mounting cyberattacks against other countries. According to some U.S. politicians and media outlets, pro-Kremlin hackers are behind some of the most high-profile attacks, including the ones that targeted the Democratic Party, ...
According to scientists’ forecasts, technologies accumulated by the human race can radically transform warfare already during the next decade. Military robotics is gaining a critical mass to make a huge qualitative leap.
Vadim Kozyulin, Senior Researcher at the PIR Center, believes that nowadays the...
Evgeny Buzhinskiy, Chairman of the PIR Center’s Executive Board and former head of the International Treaty Directorate at the Russian Ministry of Defense, believes that the Warsaw NATO Summit has become an important landmark capturing a new military and political reality: Russia has become the main...
With Russia's air campaign aimed at undermining the economic base of the "Islamic State" (IS) gaining momentum in Syria, the internal sources of Syrian conflict and the scope of territories it affected decreased significantly. There is also reduction in number of active forces interested in maintain...