Valdai Club

Andrei Kokoshin

Natalia Kondratyeva

Evgeny Kuznetsov

Ilya Kramnik

Yerlan Karin

Dareen Khalifa

Meir Kraus

Valery Konyshev

Ruslan Kostyuk

Dmitry Konukhov

Russian Federation

Research Associate of the Moscow-based Center for Energy and Security Studies (CENESS).

Materials

What Dangers Are Inherent in IAEA Politicization?

Reputational risks for the IAEA as an objective arbitrator.

Russia and Prospects for Egypt's First NPP

Russia’s state-owned nuclear energy giant Rosatom is the world leader in NPP exports. It has a portfolio of contracts to build 25 nuclear power reactors, and is involved in all three Middle Eastern NPP projects currently under way.

Prospects for New Nuclear Power Plants in Iran: What Russia's Interests Are?

Iran continues to send signals of its willingness to pursue further cooperation with Russia at the Bushehr NPP site. The construction of two new energy reactors might soon commence on the Persian Gulf coast. Russia has its own reasons to pursue such cooperation. Moscow needs an infrastructure project that would serve as an anchor in Russian-Iranian relations.