The Carnegie Moscow Center (Russian: Московский центр Карнеги) was a Moscow-based think tank that focuses on domestic and foreign policy.
In April 2022, the Carnegie Moscow Center was forced to close at the direction of the Russian government.
[5] According to American journalist James Kirchick, the Carnegie Moscow Center was one of the leading "Western" think tanks in the field of Russian research, but the situation changed after the 2012 Russian presidential election, when Vladimir Putin became the president of Russia again.
Petrov said that the decision to cancel the program was initiated by the head of the center, Dmitri Trenin, who did not want to annoy Putin.
[6] The Center's director Dmitri Trenin was described by Russian political writer Andrey Piontkovsky as an “elite Kremlin propagandist targeting the Western expert audience” suggesting that the Carnegie Foundation was complicit in Kremlin propaganda for the 30 years Trenin was director of Carnegie's Moscow Center.