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Alexandra Kuimova
POSITION AT SIPRI
Research Assistant
Alexandra Kuimova
Alexandra Kuimova is a Research Assistant with the SIPRI Arms and Military Expenditure 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. She also maintains the online National Reports Database.
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 (M.A.) degree in African and Oriental Studies, Kazan (Volga region) Federal University, Russia
Citizenship
Russia
SIPRI AND PARTNER PUBLICATIONS
- Trends in World Military Expenditure, 2019 (SIPRI, Stockholm: April 2020)
- Trends in International Arms Transfers, 2019 (: March 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, 2018 (SIPRI: March 2019)
- Military Spending and Arms Imports by Iran, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the UAE (SIPRI, Stockholm: May 2019)
- Ukraine and Black Sea Security (SIPRI: December 2018)
- Russia and Black Sea Security (SIPRI: December 2018)
- Romania and Black Sea Security (SIPRI: December 2018)
- Turkey and Black Sea Security (SIPRI: December 2018)
- Bulgaria and Black Sea Security (SIPRI: December 2018)
- Georgia and Black Sea Security (SIPRI: December 2018)
- The SIPRI Top 100 Arms-producing and Military Services Companies, 2017 (SIPRI: December 2018)
- Trends in International Arms Transfers, 2017 (SIPRI, Stockholm: March 2018)
- Trends in World Military Expenditure, 2017 (SIPRI: May 2018)
- The SIPRI Top 100 Arms‑producing and Military Services Companies, 2016 (SIPRI: December 2017)
- 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., Russia’s Arms Exports to the MENA Region: Trends and Drivers, EuroMesco Policy Brief, No. 95 (April 2019)
- Понятие исламизм. Взаимодействие демократии и исламизма (на примере арабских стран Северной Африки Туниса и Алжира), (The concept of Islamism. Interaction between democracy and Islam (Tunisia and Algeria)), Summary of the XIII Russian conference of young Africanists 'African countries in global policy in the 21st century' (2014)
- Терроризм в Африке (Terrorism in Africa), Summary of the XII Russian conference of young Africanists: 'BRICS and prospects of socio-economic, political and cultural development in Africa' (2013)
- Причины и предпосылки террористической активности в Саудовской Аравии в конце 20- начале 21вв (The causes and conditions of terrorist activity in Saudi Arabia in the period from the end of 20th century to the early 21st century), Summary of scientific student conference of Kazan Federal University (2011)