''Moscow Defense Brief'' was an English-language defense magazine published by

Centre for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies The Centre for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies (CAST); ) is an independent, for-profit Russian think tank located in downtown Moscow. CAST conducts research and analysis on Russian conventional arms trade, Russia's defense industry, mi ...

(CAST), an independent defense think-tank in Moscow, Russia.New Defense Journal
''the Moscow Times'' 22 November 2004 The magazine was in circulation between 2004 and 2018 and published a special edition in 2019.

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.Moscow Defense Brief
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 Brief''included: , editor-in-chief of ''Russia in Global Affairs''; Aleksey Nikolsky, Defense and politics reporter for Vedomosti; Alexandr Stukalin deputy editor-in-chief of ''Kommersant''; , director general of the Russian International Affairs Council; and Roger McDermott, senior fellow at the

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. The magazine was launched in 2004, and its reports were regularly cited by news sources such as ''

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. The magazine's last regular issue was published in December 2018, since then ''MDB'' is published on ad-hoc basis. The magazine had its headquarters in Moscow. As of 2015 the editor-in-chief of ''Moscow Defense Brief'' was Mikhail Barabanov and the project director was Andrey Frolov. ''Moscow Defense Brief'' folded in 2018 and issued a special volume in 2019. 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

website since 2004.Moscow Defense Brief website

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.

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External links

''Moscow Defense Brief'' Homepage

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