Moscow Defense Brief

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Overview

The purpose of Moscow Defense Brief was to provide analysis of developments and trends in Russia's defense policy and industry, tailored to the demands of defense and security professionals in the English-speaking world. [2] The articles in Moscow Defense Brief were written by both full-time analysts at CAST and a number of independent experts. External experts who wrote for Moscow Defense Briefincluded: Fyodor Lukyanov  [ ru ], editor-in-chief of Russia in Global Affairs; Aleksey Nikolsky, Defense and politics reporter for Vedomosti; Alexandr Stukalin deputy editor-in-chief of Kommersant; Andrei Kortunov  [ ru ], director general of the Russian International Affairs Council; and Roger McDermott, senior fellow at the Jamestown Foundation.

The magazine was launched in 2004, and its reports were regularly cited by news sources such as The Moscow Times , The Wall Street Journal , [3] Reuters, and the BBC News. [4] [5] [6] The magazine's last regular issue was published in December 2018, since then MDB is published on ad-hoc basis. [7]

The magazine had its headquarters in Moscow. [8] As of 2015 the editor-in-chief of Moscow Defense Brief was Mikhail Barabanov and the project director was Andrey Frolov. [9]

Moscow Defense Brief folded in 2018 and issued a special volume in 2019. [8] Subscribers received not only a print edition of each new issue, but they were also given online access to every previously published Moscow Defense Brief through the Centre for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies website since 2004. [10]

Format

Moscow Defense Brief issues were typically separated into sections on international relations, Russian defense industry topics, the arms trade, the Russian Armed Forces, interviews with prominent defense industry or government officials, and quantitative data. Moscow Defense Brief published the yearly figures for Russia's arms sales, which were the most comprehensive source of Russian foreign military-technical cooperation data. [10]

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References

  1. ↑ New Defense Journal the Moscow Times 22 November 2004
  2. ↑ Moscow Defense Brief [ dead link ]
  3. ↑ Moscow Will Boost Defense Spending to $50 Billion The Wall Street Journal 28 November 2008
  4. ↑ Russia "shot down its own planes" BBC News 9 July 2009
  5. ↑ Russia's strategic bomber fleet on global intimidation drive The Moscow Times[ dead link ]
  6. ↑ Solovyov, Dmitry (8 July 2009). "Friendly fire downed Russia jets in Georgia-report". Reuters.
  7. ↑ "Moscow Defense Brief". mdb.cast.ru. Retrieved 15 January 2019.
  8. 1 2 "Moscow Defense Brief Digital Archive". East View. 15 April 2019. Retrieved 1 September 2023.
  9. ↑ "Moscow Defense Brief".
  10. 1 2 Moscow Defense Brief website [ dead link ]
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