RUSSIA IN NUCLEAR NONPROLIFERATION: 1991-2000 AND BEYOND
The project “Russia in Nuclear Nonproliferation: 1991-2000 and Beyond” is part of the “Nonproliferation and Russia” Program.
This research project is aimed at studying the Russian position on all key nonproliferation issues and has been implemented since 1994.
The project involves:
- Preparing a corresponding dossier;
- Publishing PIR Study Papers: Russia's and Global Security pertinent to the NPT Review conferences (by Amb. Roland M. Timerbaev and Dr. Vladimir A. Orlov, November – December 1999);
- Co-hosting an international scientific conference entitled "Shaping Nonproliferation Agenda for the Coming Decade" (in collaboration with the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies, October 1999);
- Participating in the 2000 NPT Review Conference, as representatives of the academic and non-governmental organization community;
- Publishing the report “The State Duma and Arms Control” (March 2000);
- Publishing the book “The Nuclear Suppliers Group: Why and How It Was Created (1974-78)” by Roland Timerbaev;
- Co-hosting the Moscow International Nonproliferation Conference in collaboration with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (October 2000);
- Publishing “Nuclear Nonproliferation in the U.S. – Russian Relations: Challenges and Opportunities”, by Vladimir Orlov and Roland Timerbaev with Anton Khlopkov (Fall 2001)
In the framework of this project on April 18, 2000 PIR held a seminar “Russia: Nuclear Weapons and Nonproliferation – in the Context of the Coming NPT Review Conference”. The speakers were Ivan Safranchuk, PIR Center Research Fellow, and Amb. Roland Timerbaev, PIR Center Senior Advisor.
On June 2, 2000 the PIR Center held the meeting of the PIR Research Council "The Results of the NPT Review Conference". The speakers were Deputy Director of the Department on Security and Disarmament of the MFA Boris Kvok, PIR Senior Advisor Roland Timerbaev, and Director of the PIR Center Vladimir Orlov.
On October 6-7, 2000 the PIR Center, in collaboration with the Moscow Carnegie Center, held the Moscow International Nonproliferation Conference. Present at the conference were 205 participants from 24 countries. It was the first authoritative forum held in Russia in which both nongovernmental and governmental representatives together discussed such problems as nuclear security, nonproliferation of missile technologies, strategic nuclear weapons reductions, the destruction of chemical and biological weapons, the policies and practices of export control, as well as the possibility of coordinating the actions of international powers in strengthening the nonproliferation regime. Russian Minister of Atomic Energy Evgeny Adamov, Head of the Department of International Security of the Russian Security Council Nikolai Uspensky, Deputy Director of the MFA’s Department of Security and Disarmament Affairs Boris Kvok, Deputy Chairman of the Duma Defense Committee Alexei Arbatov, member of the Academy of Science of Cuba Fidel Castro Diaz-Balart, and others. Information about the conference can be obtained on the PIR Center web site http://www.pircenter.org/conference/index.htm.
Director of the PIR Center Vladimir Orlov, Senior Advisor Amb. Roland Timerbaev, Senior Research Associate Dmitry Evstafiev, and Junior Research Associate Anton Khlopkov run the project. The administrator of the project is Maria Vernikova.
For more information about the project please contact Maria Vernikova by phone: (095) 234-0525; fax: (095) 234-9558 or by e-mail info@pircenter.org.
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