Authors

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

Lead researcher and head of the Peace and Conflict Studies Unit at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) in Moscow

PhD in Geography, senior researcher, Institute of Demography HSE

Ph.D. in Political Science, Director of the Civil Diplomacy Fund, Ukraine

Head of the Center for International Security of IMEMO, RAS Full Member, RIAC member

Researcher at the Center for Central Asian Studies of the Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Lecturer in the School of International Affairs at the Higher School of Economics

Co-chairman of Polish-Russian Group on Difficult Matters, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland

Analyst, IDIP RFTA

Director of Wider Europe Programme, European Council on Foreign Relations

Ph.D. in Political Science, Founder, The Institute for Iran-Eurasia Studies (IRAS), Associate Professor at University of Tehran; Iranian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary; Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran

President, Society of Caucasian Studies Experts

Editor-in Chief, Russkiy Mir Journal

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

PhD (Political Science), Senior Research Fellow, RAS Institute for Latin American Studies

Assistant Professor at the Odintsovo branch, MGIMO University

Doctor of Science, Professor, Head of the Department of European law, MGIMO-University

Doctor of Economics, Professor, Dean of the School of Financial Economics at MGIMO University

Research Fellow at the Sino-Russian Research Center for the Digital Economy at Lomonosov Moscow State University

Professor, Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, HSE University, RIAC member

Ph.D., Research Fellow, Head of the Russian Foreign Policy Research Department at the Institute of Russian, Eastern European and Central Asian Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

PhD in History, Head of the European Union Studies Department, IMEMO RAN

Research Fellow at the Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations under the Russian Academy of Sciences

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Member of the Council of the Federation, RIAC member

MA student, National Research University – Higher School of Economics