Authors

Retired Councellor RF Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Doctor of History, Head of the Afghanistan Sector of the RAS Institute of Oriental Studies, Professor

Postgraduate at International and European Law Department, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

Subject Matter Expert on Islamic Extremism, and cultures, tribes, and sects of the Middle East and Central Asia, Cultural Intelligence Consultant for a private U.S. firm

Doctor of Historical Sciences, Head of the Department of Central and Eastern Europe Studies, Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences; Professor at MGIMO University; Professor at the Russian State University for the Humanities (RSUH)

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

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

Doctor of Economics, Director of the Center for Human Demography and Ecology, RAS Institute of Economic Forecasting

Diplomat, scholar in Asian Studies (at the Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University) and an expert on Thailand

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Chairman of the Executive Committee — Executive Chairman of the CIS

University of Birmingham

Department of Strategic Management of Fuel and Energy Sector, Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas

Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of Russia, Press Secretary of the President

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

Independent Analyst

Doctor of History, Professor at MGIMO-University

Independent journalist

Ph.D. in Political Science, Research Fellow, IMEMO RAS

Ph.D. of Law, Senior Research Fellow, Deputy Director, Institute for Global Governance Studies, Shanghai Institutes for International Study (SIIS)

PhD in Political Science; Associate Professor of the Department of Integration Processes, Senior Researcher at IMI MGIMO; Senior Researcher at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences

New Delhi based Journalist & Eurasia Analyst

Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor at the Department of World Politics, Faculty of International Relations, Director of World Politics Master’s Program, St. Petersburg State University

PhD in Physics and Mathematics, Senior Research Associate, Institute of Demography at the Higher School of Economics

Ph.D. (Engineering), President Eurasia Heritage Foundation