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Alexandra Kuimova
POSITION AT SIPRI
Researcher
Alexandra Kuimova
Alexandra Kuimova is a Researcher with the SIPRI Arms Transfers Programme. Her areas of research include the monitoring of arms transfers, military spending and arms industry, foreign and defence policies, with particular focus on the Middle East and North Africa, Russia and Eastern Europe. At SIPRI, Alexandra has contributed to research on the role of arms flows in fueling armed conflict, the risks entailed by the emergence of new suppliers in the global arms trade, and on transparency in military expenditure. She also actively contributes to the Institute’s activities aimed at supporting and accelerating progress on Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) targets.
Prior to joining SIPRI, she was an Intern in the Department of New Challenges and Threats at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation where she prepared a background report on terrorist movements in the MENA region. She also completed internships at Université Abdelmalek Essaâdi in Morocco and Cairo University in Egypt.
Subject expertise
Defence policies; arms transfers; arms procurement and military expenditure in the MENA region and Post-Soviet states; Russian arms exports to the MENA region
Regional expertise
Russia, Middle East, North Africa
CONTACT Alexandra Kuimova
Languages
Russian, English, Arabic
Education
Specialist degree in African and Oriental Studies, Kazan (Volga region) Federal University, Russia
Citizenship
Russia
SIPRI COMMENTARY
- Transfers of major arms to Afghanistan between 2001 and 2020 (Topical backgrounder, September 2021)
- Arms transfers to conflict zones: The case of Nagorno-Karabakh (Topical backgrounder, April 2021)
SIPRI AND PARTNER PUBLICATIONS
- Trends in International Arms Transfers, 2021(SIPRI, Stockholm:March 2022)
- The SIPRI Top 100 Arms-producing and Military Services Companies, 2020(SIPRI, Stockholm:December 2021)
- Trends in International Arms Transfers, 2020(SIPRI, Stockholm:March 2021)
- Trends in World Military Expenditure, 2019(SIPRI, Stockholm:April 2020)
- Mapping the International Presence of the World’s Largest Arms Companies(SIPRI, Stockholm:December 2020)
- Emerging Suppliers in the Global Arms Trade(SIPRI, Stockholm:December 2020)
- Trends in International Arms Transfers, 2019(Stockholm:March 2020)
- Understanding Egyptian Military Expenditure(SIPRI, Stockholm:October 2020)
- Trends in World Military Expenditure, 2018(SIPRI, Stockholm:April 2019)
- The SIPRI Top 100 Arms-producing and Military Services Companies, 2018(SIPRI, Stockholm:December 2019)
- Trends in International Arms Transfers, 2018March 2019)
- Military Spending and Arms Imports by Iran, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the UAE(SIPRI, Stockholm:May 2019)
- Georgia and Black Sea SecurityDecember 2018)
- The SIPRI Top 100 Arms-producing and Military Services Companies, 2017December 2018)
- Ukraine and Black Sea SecurityDecember 2018)
- Russia and Black Sea SecurityDecember 2018)
- Romania and Black Sea SecurityDecember 2018)
- Turkey and Black Sea SecurityDecember 2018)
- Bulgaria and Black Sea SecurityDecember 2018)
- Trends in International Arms Transfers, 2017(SIPRI, Stockholm:March 2018)
- Trends in World Military Expenditure, 2017(SIPRI, Stockholm:May 2018)
- The SIPRI Top 100 Arms‑producing and Military Services Companies, 2016December 2017)
- 8. Military expenditure (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2022)
- 9. International arms transfers (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2022)
- 9. International arms transfers and developments in arms production (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2021)
- 9. International arms transfers and developments in arms production (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2020)
- 8. Military expenditure (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2020)
- 5. International arms transfers and developments in arms production (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2019)
- 4. Military expenditure (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2019)
- 4. Military expenditure (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2018)
- 5. International arms transfers and developments in arms production (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2018)
External publications
- Kuimova, A. and Wezeman, S.T., Arms and military spending in the Western Balkans, Political Trends & Dynamics, Security and Arms Control in SEE, Volume 2, pp. 4-13, Friedrich Elbert Stiftung (2021)
- Tian, N., Lopes da Silva, D. and Kuimova, A., Military Spending and the Achievement of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, in UNODA Occasional Papers no. 35, Rethinking Unconstrained Military Spending, pp. 21-37, United Nations, New York (2020)
- Kuimova, A., Russia’s Arms Exports to the MENA Region: Trends and Drivers, EuroMesco Policy Brief, No. 95 (April 2019)