Authors

Director, Center for Spatial Analysis in International Relations, MGIMO University

Ph.D., senior researcher, Russia – China Centre, RAS Far East Institute

Dr. of Economics, Professor of International Economic Relations and Foreign Economic Relations MGIMO University

Ph.D. in History, Full State Counsellor of the Russian Federation, 3rd class; expert on Syria, Eastern Mediterranean and the Gulf, Associate Professor of the Department of International Business at the Financial University Under the Government of the Russian Federation

Research Assistant at the Center of Arab and Islamic Studies under the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Research Fellow at the French Institute of International Relations (IFRI)

Leading Specialist, Marketing Department, Rosatom Energy Projects

PhD in Philosophy, Film critic

Head of Trade Policy Department of Russian APEC Study Centre at RANEPA

Director of the Moscow School of Economics at the Lomonosov Moscow State University, RAS Full Member

Retired Councellor RF Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, Saint-Petersburg State Mining University

Counselor of the National Committee for BRICS Research

Ph.D. in diplomatic history, Deputy Director and Senior Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

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

Third Secretary, Press-Attaché of the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Ankara

Head of the "Africa in the Focus of Russian Interests" Programme at the MGIMO University

Ph.D. in Political studies, Middle East expert and Russian foreign policy analyst, MA Global Public Policy, Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota

Senior Analyst of the Centre for Crisis Society Studies, Expert of the Middle East Institute, RIAC

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

Deputy director of Department of implementation of Program for assisting compatriots in foreign residence in their voluntary resettlement to the Russian Federation of Ministry of Regional Development of Russia