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.
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.
MEMBERS
EVGENY P. BUZHINSKIYsince 2010
Co-Chair of the Trialogue Club International. Lieutenant-General (Retired). Chairman of PIR Center Executive Board since 2014.
ELENA V. CHERNENKOsince 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.
JOSÉ MATEUS MUÁRIA KATUPHAsince 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).
MICHAEL KUNZIsince 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.
VITALY V. NAUMKINsince 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.
VLADIMIR A. ORLOVsince 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).
NICU SECARAsince 2023
Defense Attaché of Romania.
VICTOR V. SUMSKYsince 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.
VICTOR L. VASILIEVsince 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.
REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS OF ISRAELsince 2024
REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS OF SLOVENIAsince 2025
REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS OF SPAINsince 2025
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).
GREG YOO
since 2025
Postgraduate student of MGIMO University
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.
REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS OF GABONESE REPUBLIC
since 2026
ANTON TUZINsince 2026
Grand PhD student, the Institute of the United States of America and Canada of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ISKRAN), PIR Center Alumni since 2019.
Born in the city of Kazan, USSR, 10 July 1985.
On February 15, 2023 defended thesis for the degree of PhD in politology in the specialty 5.5.4 "International Relations, Global and Regional Studies" at the Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences
(IMEMO RAN).
Since February 3, 2025 write dissertation for the degree of Doctor of politology in the specialty 5.5.4 "International Relations, global and regional studies" on the topic "The current state and prospects of non-strategic nuclear arms control in the Euro-Atlantic in the 21st century" at the doctoral program of the Institute of the United States of America and Canada of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ISKRAN).
In March 2019 was awarded the "Certificate of the Laureate of the analytical work competition "The Future of Pan-European Security. Global Dimensions", conducted jointly by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, the Gorchakov Foundation for Public Diplomacy and the PIR Center. In April of the same year completed educational course at the International School of Global Security at the PIR Center in Zvenigorod, Moscow region, and has got a corresponding "Certificate".
In different years has worked as the written translator from English into Russian at the South Korean Embassy in Moscow and also as the university teacher of history, politology and some other subjects at different universities in Moscow and Moscow region.
KRISTINA VYAZOVETSsince 2026
Marketing Specialist, GEOOPTIK,
PIR Center Alumni since 2023.- NATALYA PLOTNIKOVA
since 2026
Advisor to the President, СROS,
PIR Center Alumni since 2023. - ELIZABETH POPOVA
since 2026
Analyst at the Directorate for International Cooperation, Prosveshchenie Publishing House,
PIR Center Alumni since 2024.
EMBASSY OF DENMARKsince 2026
EMBASSY OF RWANDAsince 2026
EMBASSY OF NORWAYsince 2025
EMBASSY OF FRANCEsince 2024
DELEGATION OF THE EUROPEAN UNION TO THE RUSSIAN FEDERATIONsince 2024
EMBASSY OF AUSTRALIAsince 2024
EMBASSY OF FINLANDsince 2009- EMBASSY OF FINLAND.
DEFENCE ATTACHÉ OFFICEsince 2017 
EMBASSY OF GERMANYsince 2010
EMBASSY OF JAPANsince 1999
EMBASSY OF NEW ZEALANDsince 2022
EMBASSY OF THE REPUBLIC OF SINGAPOREsince 2021
EMBASSY OF SWEDENsince 2001
EMBASSY OF SWITZERLAND. FEDERAL DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE, CIVIL PROTECTION AND SPORT DDPSsince 2003
EMBASSY OF USA. DEFENSE ATTACHÉ OFFICEsince 2023
ICRC REGIONAL DELEGATION FOR THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION AND THE REPUBLIC OF BELARUSsince 2016
PIR PRESSsince 2015
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