The PIR Center is a non-profit, independent, Moscow-based research and public education organization, which was founded in April 1994. It conducts research on a wide range of issues related to Russian foreign and domestic policy, with particular focus on the topic of international security, arms control, and nonproliferation.
The PIR Center has the following objectives:
- to promote the principles of democracy and rule of law in Russia
- to make information on security issues available to the public and to distribute this information to the general public and experts via newsletters, journals, and study papers
- to independently analyze the most urgent international security issues from a Russian perspective
- to educate Russian decision makers, legislators, young researchers, and students in the areas of international security and arms control
The target audience of the Center’s academic and technical journals and reports includes Russian policy makers, legislators in the Federal Assembly, and experts, as well as decision makers from other countries in the CIS. Therefore most of the study papers and reports are in Russian.
Abstracts from working papers, articles and analytical reports on arms control issues are available on the Center’s website in Russian and English.