RUSSIA
Association
of Peacemaking Initiatives, Conflict Resolution and Negotiation – Peace Rose
Centre for Caucasian Studies
Centre for Ethnopolitical and
Regional Studies
Centre
for International Studies – Moscow State Institute of International Relations –
MGIMO
Centre
for Inter-Regional and Migratory Studies – Institute of International Economic and
Political Studies
Centre for National
Security and International Relations
Centre for Political and
International Studies
Centre for Strategic and
Global Studies – CSGS
Centre of Demography and Human Ecology
The Gorbachev Foundation
Institute for African Studies
Institute of Contemporary
International Studies
Institute for Humanitarian and
Political Studies
Institute for Slavic and Balkan Studies
Institute for Sociopolitical
Studies – ISS
Institute of Economic Transition
Institute of Ethnology and
Anthropology – IEA
Institute of Europe
Institute of General History
Institute Of Geography
Institute of National
Security and Strategic Studies
Institute of Oriental Studies (Moscow)
Institute of
Oriental Studies [St Petersburg]
Institute of Russian History
Institute of Social
Science Information – INION
Institute of Sociology (Moscow)
Institute of Sociology
(St Petersburg)
Institute of State and Law
Institute of USA and Canada Studies
Institute
of World Economy and International Relations – IMEMO
International
Foundation for Economic and Social Reforms – The Reform Foundation
International
Foundation for Political and Legal Research – INTERLEGAL
North Caucasus Scientific
Centre of Higher School
Peace Research Institute – PRIM
Russian Centre for
the Study of Public Opinion – VCIOM
Russian
Centre for Strategic and International Studies – RCSRIS
Russian Science
Foundation – Russian Branch – MBRSF
Russian-American
Bureau for Human Rights and Rule of Law
ASSOCIATION
OF PEACEMAKING INITIATIVES, CONFLICT RESOLUTION AND NEGOTIATION – PEACE ROSE
Bolshaja Sadovaja 11, office 304, 344007 Rostov-on-Don
Tel.: ++7 8632 668275
Fax: ++7 8632 667398
Director: Vladimir Nikolayevich Ryabtsev
The Association’s main aims are: to organise different social events related to building up humanitarian values in the region; to stimulate and encourage citizens’ activities in the human rights sphere; to promote the development of the educational infrastructures in the region; to propagate the knowledge of international human law; and to examine the official documents of political parties, public oganisations and religious associations in respect of their adherence to the principles and norms of international human law.
The Centre studies democracy and human rights in the Caucasian region.
CENTRE FOR ETHNOPOLITICAL AND
REGIONAL STUDIES
Elizarovoy st. 10, 103064 Moscow
Tel.: ++7 095 9255893
Fax: ++7 095 2066439
Director: Emil Abramovich Pain
The Centre works on issues of interethnic relations and ethnic conflict, migration and refugees’ problems.
CENTRE
FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES – MOSCOW STATE INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS –
MGIMO
Vernadskogo prospect 76, 117454 Moscow
Tel.: ++7 095 4349158
Fax: ++7 095 4349066
Director: Anatoly Vasilievich Torkunov
The Institute’s programme includes research on ethnic politics in Central Asia, Moldovia, and the CIS. Currently its research projects deal with theory and international relations; diplomacy as the tool of foreign policy; international negotiation and conflict resolution; international political stability and balancing ethnic equilibrium.
The Centre is engaged in research in the field of regional, political, economic, demographical and geographical processes in the post socialist era.
Currently the main topics of research are: inter-state and regional economic, social and political processes; internal and inter-state migration; forced migration; social and economic consequences of migration; labour migration; the ‘brain drain’ and its implications; migratory policy; problems of creating an effective structure of employment and employment policy in a transnational economy; regional demographic problems; regional labour markets in Russia; forecasting the trends of these processes in Russia; and international co-operation.
CENTRE FOR NATIONAL
SECURITY AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Khlebny pereuiok 2/3, 121814 Moscow
Tel.: ++7 095 2916623
Fax: ++7 095 2037017
E-mail: srogov@gias.apc.org
Director: Sergei Mithailovich Rogov
The Centre works on issues of ethnic conflict.
CENTRE FOR POLITICAL AND
INTERNATIONAL STUDIES
Mira prospect 36, 129010 Moscow
Tel.: ++7 095 2803536/2806414
Fax: ++7 095 280 7397/0245
Director: Alexander Ivanovich Nikitin
The Centre, an independent non-profit institution, was founded in 1989. It self-finances its activities through grants, publications, information services, research and consulting contracts with domestic and international institutions. It specialises in security issues and conflict resolution.
Within the framework of CPIS international programmes, Russian scholars have participated in joint studies with several American and other foreign universities, the International Pugwash Committee on Science and World Affairs and other institutions.
The Centre has conducted, in co-operation with other organisations, a series of public opinion surveys on security, and political and economic problems in Russia, Ukraine and Lithuania. It has also organised international consultations between parliamentarians and experts of the CIS and the Baltic states, on matters of collective security for the new independent states.
In 1992–96, under the auspices of the Parliament of the Russian Federation, and in co-ordination with the Ministry for Foreign Affairs and the Council of CIS Defence Ministers, the Centre organised a programme of conferences on East-West security issues, with representatives from NATO, the North Atlantic Assembly, the European Union, and international research institutions participating. International conferences organised by the Centre covered issues such as security, peacekeeping operations, European integration, and minorities.
In 1993 and 1996 the Centre provided assistance (with briefings and seminars) to international observers of Russian parliamentary and presidential elections. Currently, the Centre also contributes on a regular basis to the organisation of the hearings of the Committees for Foreign Affairs, Defence and CIS Affairs of the Duma (Parliament) of the Russian Federation.
Since 1992, CPIS acts in co-operation with ‘Arcturus Political Consultants’, a private company working in public relations and international projects management.
CENTRE FOR STRATEGIC AND GLOBAL
STUDIES – CSGS
Russian Academy of Science
Spiridonjavka st. 30/1, 103001 Moscow
Tel.: ++7 095 2902752
Fax: ++7 095 2900786
E-mail: fit@inafr.bmr.su
Director: Leonid Leonidovich Fituni
The Institute is engaged in policy-related research on a wide range of issues such as: global, economic and political relations; geopolitical and international security issues, with special emphasis on the changing role of the newly independent states of the former USSR.
The main fields of research are: problems of global development and restructuring of international relations with a special perspective on Russia, Africa and the Mediterranean; new trends in the economy and finance, policy, society and the enviroment, and their impact on newly emerged states; sustainable development for Russia; economic transition and poverty; polical struggle and economic reform in newly impoverished democracies; comparative analysis of structural adjustment in the Third World and the former USSR; regional, ethnic and border conflicts in the former communist block; the influence of Islam on development in the CIS; geopolitical issues of the Black Sea region.
CENTRE OF DEMOGRAPHY AND HUMAN ECOLOGY
Krasikova st. 32, 117418 Moscow
Tel.: ++7 095 1291800
Fax: ++7 095 1292627/3107071
The Centre conducts research from a human rights perspective on ethnic migrations in the post-Soviet States, and analyses the position of Russians in the republics of the former USSR.
THE
GORBACHEV FOUNDATION
Leningradsky prospect 49, 125468 Moscow
Tel.: ++7 095 9439 902/545
Fax: ++7 095 9439594
President: Michail Gorbachev
The Foundation works on political and economic issues in post-Soviet transitional society and the development of democracy.
INSTITUTE
FOR AFRICAN STUDIES
Russian Academy of Sciences
Spiridonovska str. 30/1, 103001 Moscow
Tel.: ++7 095 2902752
Fax: ++7 095 2020786
Director: Alexel Vassiliev
The Institute’s research is currently concentrated on two programmes: ‘The ways of world development and Russia’s revival’ and ‘Evolution of African societies and the new stage in relations between Russia and Africa’. The main research subjects related to African studies are: research in civilisation theory; the African economy; social problems in areas of anthropological disaster; studies of existing political systems and development of socio-political thought; economic, social and political history of Africa; the role and place of Islamic influences in the socio-political life of the Arab and African states; African regional conflicts and Russia’s role in ensuring Africa’s security. The main research subjects related to Russian studies are: economy and politics in Russia and other CIS countries and in regions of the Third World; interethnic relations in Russia and other members of the CIS; the place of Russia and the CIS in the North-South system.
The Centre for Civilisation Studies, under the direction of Igor Sledzevski, is a branch of the Institute of African Studies and conducts surveys in Russia, the republics of Central Asia, the Caucasus, and the Volga region. The main areas of research are: ethnicity and civilisation in the post communist era; myths of Russian national conscience; problems of self-identification and development; migration and refugee movements in post-Soviet territories; problems of perspective of the development of Russian diasporas in the republics of the former Soviet Union; re-Islamisation processes.
INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY
INTERNATIONAL STUDIES
Postal address: Octozhenka st. 53/2 ul., 119021 Moscow
Location: 4, Bolshoy Kozlovsky per., 107078 Moscow
Tel.: ++7 095 2089461/2461844
Fax: ++7 095 2089466
E-mail: icipu@glasnet.ru
Website: http://isn.rsuh.ru/icis.index.htm
Director: Y.P. Bazhanov
The Institute was established in 1994 by the Diplomatic Academy of the Foreign Ministry of Russia, and has three main aims: research in all fields pertaining to international relations; academic support to Russian foreign policy pertaining to a balanced, open-door, co-operative strategy of Russian international relations; facilitation of international scholarly and educational exchanges, world peace and cooperation. Its main activites include: publications, conference organisation, collaboration with domestic and foreign organisations and movements working for peace, education, and commissioned studies. Its current multinational research projects, conducted in co-operation with various foreign agencies include, among others, ‘Security and Peace in Korea’, ‘Security for Europe’ and ‘Participation in the Northeast Asia Peace and Security Network Daily Report’.
INSTITUTE FOR HUMANITARIAN AND
POLITICAL STUDIES
PO Box 18, 111538 Moscow
Fax: ++7 095 1824538/3748683
Director: Viaceslav Vladimirovich Igrunov
The Institute researches the ethno-political situation in Russia and the CIS States.
INSTITUTE FOR SLAVIC AND BALKAN STUDIES
Russian Academy of Sciences
Leninsky prospect 32-a, 117334 Moscow
Tel.: ++7 095 9381780
Fax: ++7 095 9382288
Director: Vladimir Konstantinovich Volkov
The Institute’s is conducting research on the problems of interethnic relations and national relations in the countries of Central, South Eastern and Eastern Europe. Currently the main project aims at assessing the role of national and ethnic problems in the Balkans in the process of the dissolution of Yugoslavia and in the development of the newly emerged Balkan states.
The Centre on the Modern Balkan Crisis, under the direction of Mrs H. Guskova, collects documents and materials related to the problems of the disintegration of the former Yugoslavia, the emergence of new independent states, refugees, conflicts, and international sanctions.
INSTITUTE FOR SOCIOPOLITICAL
STUDIES – ISS
Leninsky prospect 32-a, 117334 Moscow
Tel.: ++7 095 9381910
Fax: ++7 095 9380079
Director: Gennadi Vasilievich Osipov
The Institute conducts research on migration and refugee problems and also works as a monitoring centre.
INSTITUTE OF ECONOMIC TRANSITION
Ogariova st. 5, stroenie 3, 103918 Moscow
Tel.: ++7 095 2024274
Fax: ++7 095 2038816
Director: Egor Timurovich Gaydar
The Institute works on issues of ethno-political and federal policy.
INSTITUTE OF ETHNOLOGY AND
ANTHROPOLOGY – IEA
Russian Academy of Sciences
Leninsky prospect 32-a, 117334 Moscow
Tel.: ++7 095 938 1747/1917
Fax: ++7 095 9380600
Director: Valery Tishkov
The ‘Project on Ethnic Conflict Management’ deals with ethnic violence, minority rights, and refugee problems in the post-Soviet states.
The Network on Ethnological Monitoring and Early Warning of Conflict, established in 1993 as a part of the international Project on Ethnic Conflict Management in the Former Soviet Union, is a joint enterprise of the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Conflict Management Group, Cambridge, Massachusetts, in co-operation with the Harvard Law School. The Moscow Project Office is under the general guidance of Professor Valery Tishkov. The database manager of the Network is Dr Sergey Sokolowski.
The aim of the project is to increase knowledge and understanding of conflicts in post-Soviet states.
The Project uses the following elements to further their aims: a database on ethnicity and conflicts in post-Soviet states; a competent research high-speed computer network; in-depth analysis, using the advantage of local knowledge; a comparative perspective, drawing on scholarship outside CIS and critical adaption of the relevant concepts and terminology; dissemination of the data and research outcomes through periodical publications and facilitation of access to the database; dissemination of relevant information in the sphere of minority rights, and legal and constitutional approaches to multiethnic relations enabling the establishment of balanced nationalities policy in the CIS and their regions.
The Project has co-ordinating offices in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Moscow, and active representatives in the following newly independent states: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belorussia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Moldova, Tajikistan, Ukraine. Many of the republics within the Russian Federation are also represented in the Network: Bashkortostan, Buratia, Dagestan, Ingushetia, Kabarda-Balkaria, Kalmykia, North Ossetia, Tatarstan, Tuva. Currently the IEA Network has 25 members.
The Network bulletins are regularly sent to Russian governmental institutions; to the embassies of post-Soviet states and republics of the Russian Federation; to non-governmental national and international organisations (Amnesty International, International Non-Violence, Congress of Russian Communities, and the Red Cross); as well as to foundations and to institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
INSTITUTE
OF EUROPE
Russian Academy of Science
8-3B Mokhovaya Street, 103873 Moscow
Tel.: ++7 095 2034385/2037343/2016708
Fax: ++7 095 2004298
Director: Vitaly V. Zhurkin
The Institute’s main aims are: the development of the concept of an ‘all European Home’, the development of guidelines for the new European security system, and the analysis of the Western European integration processes.
INSTITUTE
OF GENERAL HISTORY
Leninsky prospect 32-a, 117334 Moscow
Tel.: ++7 095 938 1009/0076
Fax: ++7 095 9382288
Director: Alexander Oganovich Chubarian
The Institute's main areas of research are: international relations, conflicts and power structure, power and society and history of ideology.
INSTITUTE
OF GEOGRAPHY
Russian Academy of Science
Staromonetny Pereulok 29, Moscow 109017
Tel.: ++7 095 238 1845/2381822/2381877
Fax: ++7 095 2302090
E-mail: geography@glas.apc.org
Director: Vladimir Kolossov
INSTITUTE OF NATIONAL SECURITY
AND STRATEGIC STUDIES
Profsojuznaja st. 23, 117489 Moscow
Tel.: ++7 095 1286760/1203568
Fax: ++7 095 3107049
Director: Boris Vasilievich Ionov
The Institute’s social science programme includes research on minority groups and human rights.
INSTITUTE
OF ORIENTAL STUDIES
Rozhdestvenskaia st. 12, 103753 Moscow
Tel.: ++7 095 9211884
Fax: ++7 095 9752396
Director: Robert B. Rybakov
The Institute conducts research on Oriental political, historical, anthropological and sociological issues in Asia, North Africa, Oceania and Australia. It also provides specialised training for scientists who work in the CIS countries or at the Institute.
INSTITUTE OF ORIENTAL
STUDIES [BRANCH OF MUSCOVITE INSTITUTE]
Dvortsovaia naberezhnaia 18, 191186 St. Petersburg
Tel.: ++7 812 3158728
Fax: ++7 812 3115101
E-mail: orient@ieos.spb.su
Director: Evgeniy Ivanovich Kychanov
This Institute, a branch of the Muscovite one, preserves one of the largest world collections of Oriental manuscripts and documents, and does research on Oriental handwritten heritage, history, literature and religions.
The Institute publishes Manuscripta Orientalia, International Journal for Oriental MSS Research (quarterly, in English).
INSTITUTE
OF RUSSIAN HISTORY
Dm. Ulianova st. 19, 117036 Moscow
Tel.: ++7 095 1264410/1239008
Fax: ++7 095 1263955
E-mail: ikolod@eirh.aps.org
Contact: L. Kolodnikova
The Institute researches the history of Russia, including law reforms, and the history of human rights.
INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL SCIENCE
INFORMATION – INION
Nakhimovsky Pr-kt, 117418, Moscow
Tel.: ++7 095 1288930
Fax: ++7 095 4202281
Director: Pivovarov Yuri Sergeevich
The Institute researches ethnic and national conflict in Europe.
INSTITUTE
OF SOCIOLOGY
Krzhizhanovskogo 24/35, 117259 Moscow
Tel.: ++7 095 1289109
Fax: ++7 095 1289161
Director: Vladimir Alexandrovich Yadov
In the context of its regional studies programme the Institute uses research and opinion polls to monitor economic, social and cultural developments.
INSTITUTE OF SOCIOLOGY
[BRANCH OF MUSCOVITE INSTITUTE]
7-ia Krasnoarmeiskaia, 25/14, 198005 St Petersburg
Tel.: ++7 812 3163270
Fax: ++7 812 3162929
E-mail: inso@ego.spb.su
Director: Sergey Isaevich Golod
This is a branch of the Muscovite Institute of Sociology. Its research programmes cover a wide range of issues, including ethnicity, migration and ethnic minorities in the St Petersburg region.
INSTITUTE
OF STATE AND LAW
Russian Academy of Sciences
Znamenka str. 10, 119841 Moscow
Tel.: ++7 095 2918816
Fax: ++7 095 2918574
Director: Boris Nikolaevich Topornin
The Institute researches the legal protection of ethnic and religious minorities. Recent publications include Human Rights and inter-ethnic relations (1994) and State, Law and interethnic relations in the Western Democracies (1993).
INSTITUTE OF USA AND CANADA STUDIES
Russian Academy of Sciences
Khlebny pereulok 2/3, 121814 Moscow
Tel.: ++7 095 2905875
Fax: ++7 095 2004256
E-mail: iskran@glas.apc.org
Director: Sergey Rogov
The Institute studies United States domestic and foreign policy, American culture and economy. It also works on Russian foreign and military policies.
Research on interethnic conflicts is conducted by Dr Andrei Shumikhin.
INSTITUTE OF
WORLD ECONOMY AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS – IMEMO
Profsoyuznaya str. 23, 117859 Moscow
Tel.: ++7 095 1204332
Fax: ++7 095 3107027
E-mail: imemoran@glas.apc.org
Website: www.glasnet.ru/~imemoran.
Director: Alexandr Konstantinovich Kislov
The Institute was established in 1956. Fields of specialisation and research areas are: national and international security problems and regional policy; international relations; world civilisation processes; regional studies; international economic relations; comparative studies between Russia and Third World countries; international problems relating to the oceans and the environment; comparative socio-economic and socio-political studies; market economy theory; economic, social and political problems of the transition period in Russia and its position in the world; analysis and prognosis of world economic dynamics and socio-economic processes.
INTERNATIONAL
FOUNDATION FOR ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL REFORMS – THE REFORM FOUNDATION
Kotelnicheskaja naberegnaja 17, 109240 Moscow
Tel.: ++7 095 9267752
Fax: ++7 095 9752373
Director: Staninlav Sergeevich Shatalin
Main areas of research are: economic development and strategies; ethnic problems; and constitutional issues.
INTERNATIONAL
FOUNDATION FOR POLITICAL AND LEGAL RESEARCH – INTERLEGAL
M. Ulianovoy st. 16/1, 117331 Moscow
Tel.: ++7 095 1384408
Fax: ++7 095 1385886
E-mail: interlegal@glas.apc.org
Director: Nina Yurevna Beliaeva
INTERLEGAL works as an information support centre for public and human rights activities. Its current focus is on practical recommendations and social technologies in managing conflict situations. For this purpose INTERLEGAL started a non-governmental educational institution, called ‘Partners’.
NORTH CAUCASUS SCIENTIFIC CENTRE
OF HIGHER SCHOOL
The Caucasus Scientific Research Institute
Pushkinskaja st. 140, 344006 Rostov-on-Don
Tel.: ++7 8632 643254/640833
Fax: ++7 8632 640930
Director: German P. Predvetohni
The Centre’s research projects include: ‘The analysis of international relations of the Caucasus: ethnic diasporas in the cultural life of the Caucasus’, ‘The Caucasus and the problems of national security of Russia’, and ‘The Cossack movement in the North Caucasus as a social factor’.
PEACE RESEARCH INSTITUTE – PRIM
Profsoiuznaia st. 23, 117859 Moscow
Tel.: ++7 095 1289389
Fax: ++7 095 3107027
Director: Alexandr Kostantinovich Kislov
Areas of research are: peaceful solution of conflicts and diplomatic means; and strategies of conflict resolution. The Centre is a member of IMEMO.
RUSSIAN CENTRE FOR THE
STUDY OF PUBLIC OPINION – VCIOM
Nikolavskaia 17, 103012 Moscow
Tel.: ++7 095 928 2112/1411
Fax: ++7 095 9752512
Director: Yuri A. Levada
VCIOM was founded in 1988 as a Soviet Union nation-wide organisation and is the largest polling and market research agency in Russia. VCIOM has accumulated an extensive archive of data on key social and economic issues, and information on more than 2,000 projects. The VCIOM network includes 26 regional centres in all areas of Russia.
VCIOM projects on ethnicity and nationalism include: ‘Russian in the former Soviet Union (1990-1992)’, ‘Anti-Semitism as a problem and attitudes towards Jews in the USSR (1990-1992)’, ‘Germans in the USSR (1993)’, ‘National and Ethnic identification (1989-1994)’, and ‘Dynamics of ethnic stereotypes (1993-1996)’.
RUSSIAN CENTRE
FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES – RCSRIS
Rozhdestvenka st. 12, 103753 Moscow
Tel.: ++7 095 9245150
Fax: ++7 095 4256237/3321986
Director: Vitaly Viacheslavovich Naumkin
The Centre’s main aim is to carry out theoretical studies and practical research and to contribute to the understanding of emerging world issues that involve economics, ecology, and business.
Current research areas are: society in transition (case studies of development in the former Soviet republics); interethnic relations in Russia and the ‘near abroad’; defence and security issues in the post-Soviet environment; Russia’s national interests in the ‘near and far abroad’; federalism in Russia; Islam and nationalism.
Sub-units of the RCSRIS, and their areas of research include: the Institute of Central Asia: interethnic relations, the political, economic and social impact of independence on the new states, the roots and causes of conflict in the area; the Institute of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies: the political, economic and social situation in the region, religion and nationalism, ethnology and social anthropology, the role of Islam in the social life; and the Group on the Environment and Population: environmental problems and their social impact, demographic trends, population migration within the CIS.
RUSSIAN SCIENCE
FOUNDATION – RUSSIAN BRANCH – MBRSF
Central Post Office PO Box 245, 101000 Moscow
Tel.: ++7 095 2068578
Fax: ++7 095 2068573
Director: A. Kortunov
The Foundation is a non-governmental organisation, whose objective is to promote social science in Russia and other CIS countries.
The Foundation’s main aims are: to restore the best Russian traditions of research; cultural and educational activities based on progressive humanitarian values; to develop human creative and intellectual potential; to conduct broad political, economic, legal, historical and social studies in the interests of the revival and development of Russia within the community of nations; to expand academic co-operation and contacts.
RUSSIAN-AMERICAN BUREAU
FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AND RULE OF LAW
26 Volgogradskyi Prospekt
Room 1401, Moscow 109316
Tel.: ++7 095 2700662
Fax: ++7 095 2700006
E-mail: ddima@sovamsu.sovusa.com
Director: A. Lieberman
The Institute’s main areas of interest are: human rights violations; minority rights; and emigration.
Current projects include: ‘Reports on human rights violation’, ‘Emigration problems’ and ‘Assistance to refugees’. The Institute also offers summer courses on human rights.