The Carnegie Moscow Center () was a Moscow-based
think tank
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that focuses on domestic and foreign policy. It was established in 1994 as a regional affiliate of the
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
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. It was the number one think tank in Central and Eastern Europe and the 26th top think tank in the world, according to the
University of Pennsylvania
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’s 2014 Global Go To Think Tank Index. In April 2022, the Carnegie Moscow Center was forced to close at the direction of the Russian government.
Controversies
According to American journalist
James Kirchick, the Carnegie Moscow Center was one of the leading "Western" think tanks in the field of Russian research, but the situation changed after the
2012 Russian presidential election, when
Vladimir Putin
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became the
president of Russia
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again. In January 2013, Putin's critic and the then chair of the think tank's Society and Regions Program, , left the center after the cancellation of his program. Petrov said that the decision to cancel the program was initiated by the head of the center,
Dmitri Trenin, who did not want to annoy Putin. In 2014, the then editor-in-chief of the center's magazine,
Maria Lipman, and Russian political scientist
Lilia Shevtsova also left the center. Both Lipman and Shevtsova were also critics of Putin.
The Center's director Dmitri Trenin was described by Russian political writer
Andrey Piontkovsky as an “elite Kremlin propagandist targeting the Western expert audience” suggesting that the Carnegie Foundation was complicit in Kremlin propaganda for the 30 years Trenin was director of Carnegie's Moscow Center.
Scholars
*
Dmitri Trenin, director of the center, chair of the research council and the Foreign and Security Policy Program.
* Alexander Gabuev, senior associate, chair of the Russia in the Asia-Pacific Program.
*
Andrei Kolesnikov, senior associate, chair of the Russian Domestic Politics and Political Institutions Program.
*
Andrey Movchan, nonresident scholar in the Economic Policy Program.
*
Alexander Baunov, senior associate, editor-in-chief of Carnegie.ru.
* Maxim Samorukov, fellow, deputy editor of Carnegie.ru.
References
External links
Carnegie Moscow CenterCarnegie Endowment for International Peace
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Think tanks based in Russia
Organizations based in Moscow
Peace organizations