Ivan Safranchuk, Director, WSI Moscow

Phone: +7 (495) 775 0419
Fax: +7 (495) 135 1373
Email: isafranchuk@worldsecurityinstitute.org

Dr. Ivan Safranchuk joined CDI in July 2001 to open a branch office in Russia, CDI Moscow, aimed at providing the Russian media and public with independent, unfiltered information about international relations, in particular U.S.-Russian security relations. A well-known nuclear analyst in Russia, he spent four years at the PIR Center in Moscow before joining CDI- including as the director of the center's "Nuclear Weapons and Their Future" project.

Dr. Safranchuk has written extensively on nuclear weapons and arms control issues in both Russian and English. Some of his publications include: "An Array of Threats to Russia" in Assessing the Threats (ed. John Newhouse), CDI, DC, 2002; Contemporary Russian Military Journalism, Moscow, 2003; and "Tactical Nuclear Weapons in the Modern World: A Russian Perspective" in Tactical Nuclear Weapons (ed. Brian Alexandre and Alistair Millar) Brassey's Inc. 2003. He frequently contributes Op-Eds to Russian and international papers such as Nezavisimay Gazeta, Vremay Novostey, Nezavisimoe Voennoe Obozreniey, Moscow Times, and the International Herald Tribune.