| ABM |
Anti-ballistic Missile |
| ANC |
African National Congress |
| APEC |
Asian and Pacific Economic Council |
| ASEAN |
Association of Southeast Asian Nations |
| BTC |
Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Pipeline |
| CACO |
Central Asian Cooperation Organization |
| CCP |
Chinese Communist Party |
| CFE |
Conventional Forces in Europe |
| CIA |
Central Intelligence Agency (U.S.) |
| CIS |
Commonwealth of Independent States |
| CMEA |
Council for Mutual Economic Assistance |
| CPSU |
Communist Party of the Soviet Union |
| CRRF |
Collective Rapid Reaction Force |
| CSCE |
Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe |
| CSS |
Commonwealth of Slavic States |
| CSTO |
Collective Security Treaty Organization |
| CTBT |
Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty |
| CTR |
Cooperative Threat Reduction |
| DPRK |
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea |
| EBRD |
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development |
| EU |
European Union |
| EURASEC |
Eurasian Economic Community |
| FAPSI |
Federal Agency for Government Communications and Information |
| FPS |
Federal Border Service |
| FSB |
Federal Security Service |
| G-6 |
Group of Six (States conducting nuclear negotiations with Iran: United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Russia, China) |
| G-7/G-8 |
Group of Seven (the G-8 meeting without Russia)Group of Eight Industrial Nations (Canada, France, Italy, Germany, United Kingdom, United States, Japan, Russia) |
| G-20 |
The Group of 20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors |
| GATT |
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade |
| GDR |
German Democratic Republic (East Germany) |
| GNP |
Gross National Product |
| GPALS |
Global Protection Against Limited Strikes |
| GRU |
Soviet Military Intelligence Agency |
| GUUAM |
Regional cooperation organization: Georgia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan |
| (now GUAM) |
(until 2005), Azerbaijan, Moldova |
| IAEA |
International Atomic Energy Agency |
| ICBM |
Intercontinental Ballistic Missile |
| IFOR |
Implementation Force |
| IMF |
International Monetary Fund |
| INF |
Intermediate Nuclear Forces |
| KFOR |
Kosovo Force |
| KGB |
Committee for State Security |
| KLA |
Kosovo Liberation Army |
| KPD |
Communist Party of Germany |
| MFN |
Most Favored Nation |
| MIRVs |
Multiple Independently Targeted Reentry Vehicles |
| MPLA |
Movement for the People’s Liberation of Angola |
| NACC |
North Atlantic Cooperation Council |
| NATO |
North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
| NIS |
Newly Independent States |
| NKR |
Nagorno-Karabakh Republic |
| NMD |
National Missile Defense |
| NPT |
Nonproliferation Treaty |
| NSA |
U.S. National Security Agency |
| NTV |
Independent Television |
| OIC |
Organization of the Islamic Conference |
| ORT |
Public Radio and Television Broadcasting |
| OSCE |
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe |
| PFP |
Partnership for Peace |
| PLO |
Palestine Liberation Organization |
| PSI |
Proliferation Security Initiative |
| RSDLP |
Russian Social-Democratic Labor Party |
| SALT |
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks |
| SCO |
Shanghai Cooperation Organization |
| SDI |
Strategic Defense Initiative |
| SES |
Single Economic Space |
| SMF |
Strategic Missile Forces |
| SORT |
Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty |
| SPD |
Social Democratic Party (Germany) |
| START |
Strategic Arms Reduction Talks |
| SVR |
Foreign Intelligence Service |
| TCP |
Trans-Caspian Pipeline |
| UN |
United Nations |
| UNMOVIC |
United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission |
| USAID |
U.S. Agency for International Development |
| USSR |
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics |
| WTO |
World Trade Organization |