Authors

PhD in Economics, Head of the Production Support Department at Gazpromneft-Sakhalin

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

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

President, Society of Caucasian Studies Experts

PhD Student, RAS Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO RAN)

President of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Visiting Lecturer at the HSE University, RANEPA University and MGIMO University

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Federal Republic of Germany, RIAC Member

Doctor of Political Science, Professor, World Politics Department MGIMO-University

President of the Jordan-based Political Studies of the Middle East Center, Founder of the US-based Geostrategic and Media Center

Professor of the Diplomacy Department of the MGIMO University, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

Political observer

PhD in Economics, Head of the Center for Agrarian Research and Food Security, Leading Researcher at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD in Technical Sciences, Founder, Aigents, Architect, SingularityNET

PhD in Political Science, Research Associate at the Center for Political Studies, RAS Institute of Latin America

Doctor of Law, Professor, Head of the Department of International Law, MGIMO University, RIAC Member

Professor and Chair, Department of International and Comparative Politics American University of Paris

Senior Lecturer at the Saint Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation (SUAI); Adviser to the Chair of the St. Petersburg Government Committee for External Relations

Lecturer and Deputy Head of the Department of Diplomacy and Foreign Policy at Baku Slavic University, Employee at the Department of International Politics and Foreign Policy, Institute for Political Science, University of Cologne

Ph.D. in Political Science, Head of the Asia and Eurasia Program at the Russian International Affairs Council

PhD in Law, Senior Research Fellow, IMEMO RAN

PhD in History, Political Studies Center of the RAS Institute of Economics

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

Deputy Head, CCEIS Asia-Pacific Department, National Research University Higher School of Economics

Independent Expert

Junior Research Fellow, Center for Strategic Planning Studies, IMEMO

PhD in Engineering, Senior Research Fellow, Head of the CIS Institute Department of Eurasian Integration and SCO Development

PhD in History, Senior Research Fellow at RAS IMEMO Sector for US Foreign and Domestic Policy

Professor of Higher Education at the University of Oxford, Director of the ESRC/OFSRE Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE), Editor-in-Chief of Higher Education, Professorial Associate of the Melbourne Centre for Study of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne, and Lead Researcher at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow

Doctor of History, Head of the Research Center of International Relations, RAS Institute of Sociology

Brazilian columnist and RIAC blogger