The Carnegie Moscow Center was established in 1993 as a subdivision of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (Washington, DC). Beyond the Moscow Center, the Carnegie Endowment maintains offices in Beijing, Beirut and Brussels, making it the world’s first global research organization. Specialists at the Carnegie Moscow Center produce expert research and nonpartisan analysis independent of government or commercial interests. Committed to the principles of international scholarship and objectivity, the Center pursues a three-fold mission: 1) to embody and promote the concepts of disinterested social science research and the dissemination of its results in post-Soviet Russia and Eurasia; 2) to provide a free and open forum for the discussion and debate of critical national, regional and global issues; 3) to further cooperation and strengthen relations between Russia and the United States by explaining the interests, objectives and policies of each.