Dmitri Trenin is a Research Professor at the Higher School of Economics and a Lead Research Fellow at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO).

From 2008 until April 2022, Trenin was Director of the Carnegie Moscow Center. Before joining the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in 1994, Trenin served in the Soviet/Russian Armed Forces (1972-1993). He was a staff member of the Soviet Delegation to the Nuclear and Space Talks with the U.S. in Geneva (1985-1991); a senior research fellow at the NATO Defense College (1993); and a visiting professor at Brussels Free University (VUB; 1993-1994). Trenin taught at the Military Institute in Moscow (1983-1993) and served at the external relations branch, Group of Soviet Forces Germany (1978-1983).

Trenin has authored a dozen books published in Russia, the U.S., U.K., China, Japan, Germany and other countries. The most important among them include (in English) Russia, a brief history of the 20th century, Post-Imperium: A Eurasian Story, and in Russian, A New Power Balance: Russia in Search is a Foreign Policy Equilibrium.

“I see no chance of Russia stepping back from what it has achieved already in Ukraine…The minimum that Russia would insist upon is very far from the maximum that the West would be able to offer.”