Authors

Research Fellow at The Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

PhD in Economics, Leading Research Associate at the RAS Institute for Latin American Studies

Postgraduate at International and European Law Department, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

Former senior Australian diplomat

PhD in Economics

LLM Public International Law — International Environmental and Energy Law, NRU HSE

Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights

PhD in history

PhD, Foundation Fellow in the Australian Studies Institute at Australian National University

PhD in Economics, Academic Secretary of RAS Institute for Latin American Studies

PhD in History, Researcher at the RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member.

D.Sc. in Law, Professor, Department of European Law, MGIMO University; Professor, Institute of Management and Territorial Development, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

Academic Director, SKOLKOVO Institute for Emerging Market Studies

Member of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Ph.D. in Political Science, Associate Professor at the School of World Politics, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Head of Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States Affairs, Compatriots Living Abroad, and International Humanitarian Cooperation (Rossotrudnichestvo), RIAC Member

RIAC President (2011–2026), Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (1998–2004), Russian Academy of Sciences Corresponding Member, RIAC Member

RAS Institute of Economics

PhD in Political Science, Andrew Derbenev is a Researcher at the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, and an Associate Professor in Moscow State Pedagogical University

Ph.D., Institute of International Relations and World History, N. I. Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod

Doctor of Economics, Professor, Department of International Economic Relations and Foreign Economic Relations, MGIMO University

PhD in Political Science, Research Centre for International and Regional Politics (Saint-Petersburg), Project Coordinator, Euroacademy (Tallinn), professor

Doctor of Political Science; Professor and Senior Research Fellow, Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Professor, Department of International Relations of the HSE University; Professor, World Economy Department, MGIMO University

Doctor of Philosophy, Professor at the Higher School of Economics

Director of the Sino-Russian Research Centre for the Digital Economy at Lomonosov Moscow State University

PhD in Physics and Mathematics, Senior Research Associate, Institute of Demography at the Higher School of Economics