We believe, open discussions can and certainly will foster bilateral and multilateral relations. If you are looking for interesting topics, intelligent company, and thought provoking speeches - the Trialogue Club International is a perfect place to have it all.

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+7 916 170-03-07
secretary@trialogue-club.ru
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We believe, open discussions can and certainly will foster bilateral and multilateral relations. If you are looking for interesting topics, intelligent company, and thought provoking speeches - the Trialogue Club International is a perfect place to have it all.

CURRENT
MEMBERS OF
THE CLUB
INDIVIDUAL
MEMBERS
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    EVGENY P. BUZHINSKIY 
    since 2010

    Co-Chair of the Trialogue Club International. Lieutenant-General (Retired). Chairman of PIR Center Executive Board since 2014.
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    ELENA V. CHERNENKO 
    since 2020

    Co-Chair of the Trialogue Club International. Special correspondent, Kommersant Publishing House. Member of PIR Center EKS Working Group on International Information Security and Global Internet Governance since 2012. Member of PIR Center Executive Board.
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    JOSÉ MATEUS MUÁRIA KATUPHA
    since 2024

    PhD in Linguistics. Since 2021, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Mozambique to the Russian Federation. Member of the Parliament of Mozambique (1994-2015). Associate Professor at Eduardo Mondlane State University (1994). Member of the Government of Mozambique (1991-2001).
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    MICHAEL KUNZI
    since 2013

    Financial services professional with more than twenty years of wealth management experience. In June 2013, Michael joined Marcuard Heritage, a Swiss independent wealth manager. Michael is an economist and holds a PHD in Russian language and literature from the University of Bern. He has lived in Moscow since 2000, is married and has two sons.
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    VITALY V. NAUMKIN 
    since 2022

    PhD in History, Academic Advisor of Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences. President of a non-profit NGO Center for Strategic and Political Studies, Editor-in-chief of the Vostok/ORIENS journal, member of the advisory Scientific Council under the Security Council of Russia. He leads the Department of Regional Studies at the Faculty of World Politics at Moscow State University. PIR Center Advisory Board member since 2014.
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    VLADIMIR A. ORLOV
    since 1993

    President and Founder of the Club (since 1993). President and the Founder of PIR Center (since 1994). MGIMO Professor and Academic Advisor of the International M.A. Dual Degree Program Global Security, Nuclear Policy and WMD Nonproliferation (PIR-Center, MGIMO University, Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, USA).
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    NICU SECARA
    since 2023

    Defense Attaché of Romania.
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    VICTOR V. SUMSKY
    since 2016

    Leading Expert of the ASEAN Center at the Moscow State Institute (University) of International Relations (MGIMO-U), and Chief Research Fellow at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations, RAS. PIR Center Advisory Board member since 2012.
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    VICTOR L. VASILIEV
    since 2024

    Served in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Russian missions and delegations at various international forums since September 1989. Currently Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the Collective Security Treaty Organisation. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary. PIR Center Advisory Board Member since 2015.
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    REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS OF ISRAEL
    since 2024
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    REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS OF SLOVENIA
    since 2025
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    REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS OF SPAIN
    since 2025
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    CHRISTOPH POLAJNER

    since 2025

    Master's degree in Chinese Studies. Worked for a Geneva-based organisation in China, other parts of Asia, Russia and Ukraine, and subsequently as an advisor on foreign and security policy in Berlin and Brussels. He is the co-founder and vice chairman of the Berlin-based Eurasien Gesellschaft (Eurasian Society).
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    GREG YOO

    since 2025

    Postgraduate student of MGIMO University
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    MAURICIO TOBA

    since 2026

    He graduated in Law from University of Sao Paulo in 1993, holding also a Master’s Degree (1999) and Doctorate in Law (2003) from that same university. A career diplomat since 2005. Along his career within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Brazil, he worked in Brasilia at the Department of International Organizations (2006-09); Division of South American Affairs (2015); Office of the Legal Counsellor (2015-2022); and Secretariat for Brazilian Communities Abroad, Consular and Legal Affairs (2023-2025).

    Currently Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of Brazil.

CORPORATE
MEMBERS
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    EMBASSY OF NORWAY
    since 2025
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    EMBASSY OF FRANCE
    since 2024
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    DELEGATION OF THE EUROPEAN UNION TO THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
    since 2024
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    EMBASSY OF AUSTRALIA
    since 2024
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    EMBASSY OF FINLAND
    since 2009
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    EMBASSY OF FINLAND.
    DEFENCE ATTACHÉ OFFICE
    since 2017
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    EMBASSY OF GERMANY
    since 2010
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    EMBASSY OF JAPAN
    since 1999
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    EMBASSY OF NEW ZEALAND
    since 2022
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    EMBASSY OF THE REPUBLIC OF SINGAPORE
    since 2021
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    EMBASSY OF SWEDEN
    since 2001
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    EMBASSY OF SWITZERLAND. FEDERAL DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE, CIVIL PROTECTION AND SPORT DDPS
    since 2003
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    EMBASSY OF USA. DEFENSE ATTACHÉ OFFICE
    since 2023
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    ICRC REGIONAL DELEGATION FOR THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION AND THE REPUBLIC OF BELARUS
    since 2016
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    PIR PRESS
    since 2015

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