Authors

PhD in History, Leading Researcher at RAS Institute for Far Eastern Studies

PhD Candidate in International Relations, specialist in Russian and Eurasian Affairs, Turkey

Ph.D., Kant Institute Deputy Director, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

Senior Fellow, Energy, Investment and Connectivity, Gateway House: Indian Council on Global Relations

Editor-in-Chief of Russia Today TV channel, editor-in-chief of international news agency "Rossiya Segodnya"

Head of international contacts and press relations service of the Gorbachev Foundation. Foreign affairs expert and journalist

Senior Lecturer at the Department of Social Sciences, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Research Fellow at the Center of Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Professor of government and politics at George Mason University

Senior Research Associate with The Jindal Schoolof International Affairs, Sonepat

Chairman, Supervisory Board, Centre for Strategic and Foreign Policy Studies (Belarus)

Senior Officer, International Arctic The Pew Charitable Trusts

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

Ph.D. in History, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Faculty of Humanities, Novosibirsk State Technical University; Associate Professor, Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Tyumen

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

Journalist for The New York Observer, Founder/Director of Deepcor Media Former communications director of the Himalayan Consensus - an NGO based in Kathmandu, Nepal

Doctor of History, Assistant Professor at St. Petersburg State University

Ph.D. in Economics, Senior Researcher at the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Doctor of History, Professor of Russian University of Peoples’ Friendship, Institute of African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Doctor in History, Professor at Department of world politics, Tomsk State University

Lecturer, Department of Asian and African Studies, MGIMO University, Research Fellow, Center for Japanese Studies, RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

Independent researcher, lecturer at Dostoevsky Omsk State University

Deputy Finance Minister of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Chairman of the Board of the Foundation for Development and Support of the Valdai Discussion Club

Ph.D. (History), Leading Research Fellow, Institute for Advanced Strategic Studies, HSE University

Dean of the Faculty of International Relations and Foreign Area Studies of the Institute of History and Archives of RSUH, RIAC member.

PhD in Political Science, associate professor at the School of World Political Processes, research associate at the Center for Post-Soviet Studies, MGIMO University

PhD in History, Theology Department, Urals State Mining University

Ph. D., Special Research Fellow of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies of Peking University