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

Centre for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies The Centre for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies (CAST) (Russian: Центр анализа стратегий и технологий) is an independent, for-profit Russian think tank located in downtown Moscow. CAST conducts research and ...

(CAST), an independent defense think-tank in Moscow, Russia.New Defense Journal
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Overview

The purpose of ''Moscow Defense Brief'' is 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
/ref> The articles in ''Moscow Defense Brief'' are written by both full-time analysts at CAST and a number of independent experts. External experts who have written for ''Moscow Defense Brief''include: Fyodor Lukyanov, 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 The Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC, russian: Российский совет по международным делам) is a non-profit academic and diplomatic think tank established by the presidential decree dated 2 February 2010. ...

; and Roger McDermott, senior fellow at the

Jamestown Foundation The Jamestown Foundation is a Washington, D.C.-based conservative defense policy think tank. Founded in 1984 as a platform to support Soviet defectors, its stated mission today is to inform and educate policy makers about events and trends, which ...

. The magazine was launched in 2004, and its reports have since been 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 Editor-in-Chief of ''Moscow Defense Brief'' is Mikhail Barabanov and the project director is Andrey Frolov. Subscribers receive not only a print edition of each new issue, but they are also given online access to every previously published ''Moscow Defense Brief'' through the

website since 2004.http://mdb.cast.ru/

Format

''Moscow Defense Brief'' issues are 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'' publishes the yearly figures for Russia's arms sales, which is the most comprehensive source of Russian foreign military-technical cooperation data.

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