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Nikolai Sokov

Senior Fellow, Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation

Dr Sokov has a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan (1996) and (the Soviet equivalent of a Ph.D.) Candidate of Historical Sciences degree from the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (1986). He graduated from Moscow State University in 1981.

In 1981, Dr Sokov worked at the Institute of US and Canadian Studies and the Institute of World Economy and International Relations in Moscow. From 1987-92 he worked at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union and later Russia, and participated in START I and START II negotiations as well as in a number of summit and ministerial meetings.

He has published extensively on international security and arms control.

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Report

Protecting the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in turbulent times: European and P5 perspectives on the 2026 NPT Review Conference

This commentary collection compiles 10 articles by ELN network members and external collaborators as part of the ELN’s Protecting the Non-Proliferation Treaty project. The collection was originally published for the 2026 NPT RevCon.

27 April 2026 | Federica Dall’Arche, Ciarán Doyle, Carmen Wunderlich, Stephan Klement, Łukasz Kulesa, Emmanuelle Maitre, Thomas Countryman, Sahil V. Shah, Tianjiao Jiang and Nikolai Sokov
Multilateral Arms Control, Disarmament and Non-ProliferationNPT Project
Commentary

P5 perspectives on the 2026 NPT Review Conference: Russia

In the fifth in our series exploring P5 perspectives on the forthcoming 2026 NPT Review Conference, former Soviet and Russian Ministry for Foreign Affairs official Nikolai Sokov sets out Russia’s position, highlighting its response to US and Israeli military actions, emphasis on sovereign equality and peaceful nuclear rights, and increasingly assertive framing of proliferation risks, alongside growing alignment with China and outreach to the Global South.

21 April 2026 | Nikolai Sokov
Multilateral Arms Control, Disarmament and Non-Proliferation
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