Authors

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

PhD in Economics, Independent expert

Doctor of Economics, Chief Research Fellow of IMEMO, RAS

Vice Chair, Nuclear Threat Initiative; and former Secretary of State for Defence, United Kingdom

Junior Research Fellow at the MGIMO Institute for International Studies (IMI MGIMO)

Doctor of Philosophy, Professor at the Higher School of Economics

Ph.D. (History), Head of the Department of Ethno-Political Conflict at the Institute of Europe under the Russian Academy of Sciences

Professor of Foreign Regions Chair at Russian State University for Humanities, Expert on history of CEE countries

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

Ph.D. candidate in Slavic and Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University

PhD, Project Coordinator of “Greece, Cyprus, Egypt & Israel: Opportunities and Restrictions of a Mediterranean Coalition” Project at the International Relations Institute of Athens

President, Synergia Foundation

PhD in History, Associate Professor, Department of Post-Soviet Countries, Russian State University for the Humanities, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Post-Soviet and Interregional Studies

PhD in History, Associate Professor at Chernyshevsky National Research Saratov State University

Doctor of Political Science, Director of the Centre for Comparative Governance Studies, Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies, HSE Campus in St. Petersburg

Doctor of Economics, Leading Research Fellow, RAS Institute for Latin American Studies

Senior Research Fellow at the Center for the Study of Vietnam and ASEAN, Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of RAS

PhD in Economics, Associate Professor at MGIMO-University Integration Processes Department

Ph.D. in Political Sciences, Research Fellow, Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies (CCEIS) at the Higher School of Economics National Research University (HSE University)

Senior Lecturer, Saint Petersburg State Electrotechnical University “LETI” and Saint Petersburg State University

Independent analyst

Doctor of Science, Programme Director of the Valdai Discussion Club; Academic supervisor of the Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies, HSE University, RIAC Member

Ph.D, Head of Chair, Cybernetics and Information Security Department, Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (National Research Nuclear University)

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

PhD in Economics, Head of the innovative direction at the Interdepartmental Analytical Center

Director of Inter-ethnic relations Department of Ministry of Regional Development of Russia