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"Whatever the puzzles in international relations, and no matter how the threats and challenges to Russian security have multiplied, we wish our readers the best as they peruse the pages of our journal. We hope that this journal will help to determine how Russia should answer these challenges and threats, and indicate the new areas that are opening up to Russia as it grows stronger."
Vladimir Orlov, Security Index editor-in-chief
"The publication of the first issue of Security Index, which is intended as a clear and reliable source of objective information on Russian foreign and defense policy not compromised by politics and ideology, is no doubt a very necessary and timely event."
Sergei Ivanov, the First Deputy chairman of the Russian Federation Government
Security Index is an academic and policy journal. Its authors' conclusions and recommendations are of immediate and practical use for representatives of business associations, those working in the security sphere, and politicians and officials involved in formulating Russia's foreign policy.
The journal illuminates various issues related to international security: from nonproliferation of weapons of mass destruction and energy security to information technology and demographic security, military-technical cooperation, and the development of aerospace, nuclear, and other high technologies.
Security Index, which has gone through several stages of evolution, has become the leading Russian journal on international security. Since November 1994, 80 issues of the journal have been published (until recently under the name Yaderny Kontrol).
In January 2007 the journal did not simply gain a new name. It also attained a new level, broadening its audience in Russia as well as throughout the world, through an English-language edition that will be distributed from Switzerland.
The main target audiences of the journal are those who have a real influence on world events: politicians and experts, journalists, scholars, teachers, and young specialists who will shape Russia's future in the next 5 to 10 years.
In Russia, the journal is read in the State Duma, the Federation Council, the Administration of the President, the Security Council, the Ministry of Defense, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Federal Atomic Energy Agency, the Ministry of Economic Development and in other executive bodies of the Russian Federation.
The presentation of the first issue of Security Index journal in Moscow and its international edition in Geneva took place on February 1, 2007 and February 28, 2007 respectively. Russian and foreign experts, diplomats, and media participated in the presentations.
The new journal Security Index follows the traditions established by its predecessor, the journal Yaderny Control, yet covers a much broader spectrum of issues pertinent to international security.
Main issue areas.
- Russian foreign policy and Russian national interests: what are they?
- Global energy security
- The nuclear energy renaissance. Multinational nuclear approaches (MNAs). Russia's role in nuclear energy and nuclear exports.
- New nuclear powers and the future of the nonproliferation regime.
- The world arms markets. The prospects of Russian military-technical cooperation on new and traditional markets.
- Migration and demography as factors of geopolitics and national security.
- Russia's new role in Central Asia.
- Indo-Russian cooperation: the possibilities and limitations.
- Oil, gas, and the social aspects of Russia's “national projects.”
- Critical infrastructure protection in major cities.
- Risks in information security. Telecommunications and terrorism.
- Biotechnology and biosecurity.
The journal's mission
First, we provide our readers with serious, professional, and unbiased examinations of urgent issues in the sphere of international security that are relevant to Russian interests.
Second, the journal materials should, one way or another, not just identify challenges and threats to Russian national interests, but indicate the measures that might be taken to further these interests in an appropriate and comprehensive manner.
Third, our international edition published in English provides our knowledgeable, foreign readership – politicians, businessmen, diplomats and experts – access to Russian opinions on a variety of international security issues.
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