MOSCOW, OCTOBER 2, 2014, PIR PRESS – “Without exception, all articles and materials of this issue were written by staff members, members of the PIR Center Board, as well as graduates of PIR Center, or, if you please, representatives of the expanding PIR Community, our colleagues and friends who at some point during our 20-year history have worked at PIR Center, come to us as interns, received PIR Center scholarships, or completed our educational or training programs.  This issue is a collective gift from our graduates, our friends, constituting of already more than 800 individuals of the PIR Community on PIR Center’s 20^th anniversary,” – Editorial Board of the Security Index journal.  

The autumn issue of the Security Index Journal was released on August 29, 2014.  As usual, our readers have the opportunity to read and comment on articles in the latest issue on the PIR Center site (in Russian).   

Read in the journal:

• In an interview, the Director of PIR Center, Vladimir Orlov shares his thoughts on the past, the present and the future of PIR Center;
• PIR Center Researcher, Andrey Baklitskiy writes about the twists and turns of the Third Session of the Preparatory Committee for the 2015 NPT Review Conference (in Russian), in which he took part ;
• In his article, PIR Center Expert and former staff member, Nikita Perfiliev discusses the prospects for ratification of the CTBT in the US and what role Russia and China can play in the process (in Russian);
• In his article, Assistant to the Editor-in-Chief of the Index Security journal, Maxim Starchak answers the question of why development of a Brazilian uranium enrichment program is perceived as development of a national industry, and not as a threat to the nonproliferation regime (in Russian);
• Within his work, PIR Center Educational Program graduate, Ivan Zolotykhin reveals areas of nuclear collaboration between Russia and Southeast Asian states, and examines their possibilities and prospects (in Russian);
• Security Index journal Editorial Board member, Yuri Fedorov reflects on whether Iran will be able to become an energy superpower (in Russian);
• PIR Center Educational Program graduate, Yulia Sveshnikova talks about the internal Iranian debate on key international events (in Russian);
• In her article, PIR Center Editorial Board member, Ekaterina Stepanova examines main trends of terrorist activity at the start of the XXI century, paying special attention to the regionalization of modern terrorism (in Russian);
• In his article, PIR Center Educational Program graduate, Kamal Gasimov provides a comprehensive picture of the grounds (or, conversely, the denial) by Muslim theologians of the need to create WMD (in Russian);
• Research Fellow at the Institute for US and Canadian Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences and former PIR Center staff member, Aleksey Rey tells of new trends in the organization of military procurement in the US (in Russian); 

• Also in the issue, read the discussion of Board members, staff and graduates of the PIR Center Educational Program, Evgeny Buzhinsky, Natalia Kalinina, Vadim Kozyulin, Dmitry Litovkin and Dmitry Chizhov on the new realities of Russia’s military-technical cooperation (in Russian);
• PIR Center Senior Vice President Evgeny Buzhinsky discusses the future of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (in Russian);
• Read about the development of America’s MonsterMind program (in Russian) in a joint article by PIR Center Educational Program alumna, Elena Chernenko and PIR Center Researcher, Oleg Demidov;
• In his comments, Associate Professor in the Department of World Politics at MGIMO (University) of the MFA of the Russian Federation and former PIR Center staff member, Ivan Safranchuk speaks about the threats of the color revolution for Central Asia (in Russian).

In this issue you can find book reviews written by PIR Center staff members and interns, as well as continued wishes of congratulations on PIR Center’s 20^th anniversary.  The contents of the issue and electronic versions of the articles can be found in the section Current Issue (in Russian).  

Distribution to subscribers of the new issue of the Security Index journal has already begun.  Subscription to the journal can be done through the Rospechat agency catalog, Newspapers. Magazines. Within the catalog, the publication number is 80666.

We keep uploading the congratulations received in recent weeks regarding PIR Center’s 20^th anniversary to our website.

Detailed information on publications and subscriptions to the Security Index journal can be obtained from the Assistant to the Editor-in-Chief, Maxim Starchak via tel. +7 (495) 987 1915, fax +7 (495) 987 1914, email: editor at pircenter.org.