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20 october 2017
Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO): Bridging the Conflict between Progress and Humanism
The perspective from a highly technical and science-based organization, gives a positive and hopeful outlook on what technological progress can contribute to the future of humanity.
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9 october 2017
No Light at the End of the Tunnel
None of the possible scenarios for solving the North Korean problem—negotiations, sanctions, and a military solution—can be considered acceptable and satisfactory. This means that the United States and the whole world will likely have to coexist with a nuclear North Korea.
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30 august 2017
IAEA Low Enriched Uranium Bank Launches in Kazakhstan
On August 29, the International Atomic Energy Agency Low-Enriched Uranium Bank was officially opened at the Ulba Metallurgical Plant in Ust-Kamenogorsk.
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30 august 2017
IAEA Low Enriched Uranium Bank Launches in Kazakhstan
On August 29, the International Atomic Energy Agency Low-Enriched Uranium Bank was officially opened at the Ulba Metallurgical Plant in Ust-Kamenogorsk.
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6 june 2017
Japanese Yen Meets Russian Gas in the Far East
Currency issue is a political issue as much as it is an economic one, therefore political leadership is needed. Much depends on whether Japan can cooperate with Russia as the U.S. did with Saudi Arabia. Japan would be a stable buyer of natural gas and a stable provider of capital for Russia.
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3 november 2016
Nuclear Weapons in the Cyber Age: New Challenges for Security, Strategy and Stability
The safe, secure and reliable management of nuclear weapons has always been a complex and complicated business, plagued by uncertainty and risks.
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1 june 2016
Does North Korea Have a Place in Russia’s “Turn to the East”?
What are the prospects for Russian-North Korean relations today?
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20 may 2016
U.S.-Russia Nuclear Lab-to-Lab Cooperation: Looking Back on a Quarter Century of Constructive Relations
With the latest protracted nosedive in U.S.-Russia relations, when areas of cooperation have continued to shrink, it is beneficial to reflect on historically constructive joint endeavors, such as the cooperation between the two countries’ nuclear weapon laboratories (“lab-to-lab cooperation”).
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29 april 2016
The Iranian Deal: Opportunities and Obstacles for Russian-US Cooperation
On July 14, 2015, the United States, Russia, China, France, UK, Germany, the European Union and Iran concluded the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), commonly known as the “Iran deal,” with the goal of ending the standoff over the Iranian nuclear program.
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14 july 2015
Nuclear Fears after Ukrainian Crisis
One of the global security consequences of the current Ukrainian crisis is the visibly raising ‘nuclear fears’ in both political elites and wider public opinion among the world. There are various dimensions of such fears.
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19 june 2015
No Need to Look Far Afield?
In the absence of a large number of allies, bases and airfields in various parts of the world, Russia’s capability for global presence and defending its national interests far from Russian borders is limited.
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15 june 2015
The Persistence of Nukes: Why Nuclear Weapons Remain Central to International Power
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26 june 2014
Why Russia needs to develop nuclear energy
Russian expert discusses the importance of nuclear energy in Russia.
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7 june 2014
Will Kiev Be Able to Create a Nuclear Bomb?
Amidst the Ukrainian crisis several statements were made in Kiev that Ukraine should develop nuclear weapons of its own. Although the probability is not high, this issue prompts an analysis of Ukraine’s real nuclear potential in this sphere.
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25 august 2011
Russia proposes a new Korean paradigm
Any foreign trip by North Korean leader Kim Jong-il arouses a great deal of interest, as he practically never leaves his country.
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22 june 2011
Nuclear Power After Tsunami
Fukushima has demonstrated that the days when a country hit by a nuclear accident deals with the consequences on its own are gone. The internationalization of challenges facing the world nuclear power industry requires that the nuclear community internationalize the response – the more so in security matters and, in particular, in such emergencies as nuclear accidents.
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27 march 2011
A Peaceful Atom
Russia’s negative image in nuclear security, export controls and nonproliferation dates back to the early 1990s; it is based on a combination of real problems that existed at the time and Hollywood-like stories in the media. Until recently, that image has often stood in the way of practical contacts and politicized nuclear energy cooperation between Russia and the United States.
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7 july 2010
Global Zero and Common Sense
The anti-nuclear movement is harmful. Firstly, it may result in the reduction of nuclear armaments to a dangerous minimum, as it opens the Pandora’s Box of negotiations over the reduction of non-strategic nuclear armaments. Secondly, it distracts from the search for new ways of setting peace and stability in the new world.
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Back into the Future, Or Cold War Lessons for Russia
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Vitaly Shlykov -
Four Years Since Maidan: Why Russia-West Reconciliation Will Remain Crucial During Putin’s Fourth Term
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Zachary Paikin, Camille-Renaud Merlen, Viktoria Ivanchenko -
The arrival of post-Putin Russia
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Ivan Krastev, Gleb Pavlovsky -
WEF-2018: Everybody First
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The West’s Unilateral Cold War
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Sergey Karaganov
The West’s Unilateral Cold War
The problem between Russia and the West is really a problem among Westerners themselves. If there is a new cold war, it is only because established elites have not come to terms with reality: the balance of military, political, economic, and moral power has shifted too far away from the West to be reversed.
Back to Balance. New Weapons As Effective Deterrence
Many bad things have been said about nuclear weapons in the decades since they first came into existence. Indeed, in the middle of the 20th century the human race developed a means of confrontation with the potential to destroy the entire world were it used on a large scale.
Russia and China: The Challenges of Excellent Relations
The Russian-Chinese relations can be called excellent. However, this is what makes one think very seriously about the future of these relations. It is the main problem of any success: having achieved something, one always has to stop and think what to do next.
Iran FM: Trump administration 'never in' nuclear deal
If President Donald Trump withholds the next round of Iran sanctions waivers due May 12, effectively exiting the nuclear deal, Tehran could resume its nuclear program “in a much more advanced way.”
What is going on in Yerevan?
Armenia has been in turmoil for the past few days. The fact that the central streets of Yerevan were packed with protesters did nothing to prevent ruling coalition MPs from convening in the National Assembly and voting for the appointment of Serzh Sargsyan as Prime Minister.
A Pyrrhic Victory: the History of the Sanctions War Against Iran
The history of sanctions against Iran deserves close analysis in light of the growing sanctions pressure on Russia. Although Iran and Russia are different countries facing different sanctions paradigms, Iran’s experience is meaningful if only because both countries have to contend with US sanction law.
De-dollarization in the EAEU Member States: Key Trends and Prospects
The emerging trend towards de-dollarization in the EAEU can make domestic monetary policy more efficient as well as facilitate economic integration in the Eurasian space.