Authors

Senior researcher at the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, the Institute of Oriental Studies, RAS, associate professor at People’s Friendship University of Russia

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

PhD, Rector of the HSE University, RIAC Member

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

Doctor of Political Sciences, Head of Center of Socio-Political Studies ISKRAN

Doctor of Political Science, Professor of the Diplomacy Department of the MGIMO University

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

Doctor of Economics, Head of Department of Economic Research, RAS Institute for Oriental Studies

Independent Analyst

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

Ph.D. (History), Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D. in History, Associate Professor, School of International Regional Studies, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies (CCEIS), Research Fellow, International Laboratory on World Order Studies and the New Regionalism at the Higher School of Economics National Research University (HSE University)

Ph. D., Executive Vice President of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies of Peking University

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

President, Society of Caucasian Studies Experts

Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee for Foreign Affairs of Georgia, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia, former Chairman of the National Security Council of Georgia

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

Political scientist, Chairman of the Georgian Economic Forum

Geopolitical Analyst and Commentator

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

University of Birmingham

University of San-Francisco, Professor of International Relations

MA student, National Research University – Higher School of Economics

Ph.D. in History, Senior Researcher at the Department of Central and Eastern European Studies at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Ambassador, President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (1996-1998)