The Carnegie Moscow Center () was a Moscow-based

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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. It was the number one think tank in Central and Eastern Europe and the 26th top think tank in the world, according to the

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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

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, the Carnegie Moscow Center was one of the leading "Western" think tanks in the field of Russian research, but the situation changed after the

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, when

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became the

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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,

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, who did not want to annoy Putin. In 2014, the then editor-in-chief of the center's magazine,

Maria Lipman Maria Alexandrovna Lipman (; born 1952) is a Russian journalist, political scientist and US—Russia policy expert, who edited the magazine of the Carnegie Moscow Center until 2014, and who writes for Foreign Affairs and other publications, and ...

, and Russian political scientist

Lilia Shevtsova Lilia Fyodorovna Shevtsova (russian: Ли́лия Фёдоровна Шевцо́ва; born 7 October 1949 in Lviv, Ukrainian SSR) is a Kremlinology expert. Biography Shevtsova received Bachelor of Arts, B.A. and Master of Arts, M.A. in history ...

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 Andrey Andreyevich Piontkovsky (russian: Андре́й Андре́евич Пионтко́вский, born June 30, 1940, Moscow) is a Russian scientist and political writer and analyst, a member of International PEN Club. He is a former mem ...

as an “elite Kremlin propagandist targeting the Western expert audience”.

Scholars

, 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. * , nonresident scholar in the Economic Policy Program. *

Alexander Baunov Alexander Germanovich Baunov (russian: link=no, Александр Германович Баунов, born December 4, 1969) is a Russian international policy expert, journalist, publicist, and former diplomat. Since 2015, he has been a senior a ...

, senior associate, editor-in-chief of Carnegie.ru. * Maxim Samorukov, fellow, deputy editor of Carnegie.ru.

References

External links

Carnegie Moscow Center

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
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