Authors

Senior Researcher at the ‘Russia, China, World’ Centre of the Institute of China and Modern Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IKSA RAS), Head of the Commission for the Creation and Activities of Regional Branches, Member of the Central Board of the Russian-Chinese Friendship Society (ORKD)

Rector of the Lomonosov Moscow State University, RAS Vice-President, RAS Full Member

PhD in Political Science, EU and CE policy department of the Institute of European Studies at MGIMO University

Head of International Cooperation Department, Integration Development Department, EEC

Ph. D., Associate Professor of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies of Peking University

PhD in History, Senior Research Associate, Institute for Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Science

Doctor of Economy, Professor, Professor, Member of the Global Migration Policy Associates

Chairman of the Board of the Foundation for Development and Support of the Valdai Discussion Club

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

INSOR Director for International Development

Ph.D., senior researcher, Russia – China Centre, RAS Far East Institute

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

Professor at the Diplomacy Department at MGIMO Russia, Chief Research Fellow of the Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Vice-president

Doctor of Political Science, professor at Saint Petersburg state university

Expert for the Center for African Studies, HSE University

Expert at the Institute of the Middle East, graduate of International Institute of Energy Policy and Diplomacy at MGIMO

Ph.D., Kant Institute Deputy Director, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

PhD in History, Center for Asia-Pacific Studies, Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Leading Research Fellow

Deputy director of Department of implementation of Program for assisting compatriots in foreign residence in their voluntary resettlement to the Russian Federation of Ministry of Regional Development of Russia

MENA Program Director, International Crisis Group (ICG)

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

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

Director of the Institute of Russian, Eastern European and Central Asian Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Vice President of the Council on Strategic Interaction between China and Russia at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Director of the Research Institute for European and American Studies based in Athens, Greece

Independent expert

Chair of the Iran Section, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Associate Professor at the Department of World Economy, MGIMO University

Doctor of Economy, Professor of MGIMO, Chief Scientific Fellow of the Far East Institute of RAS

Corresponding member, RAS, Dr. of Economics, Professor,
Dean of the Faculty for International Energy Business, Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas

Doctor of Economics, Director of the Far East Institute's Vietnam-ASEAN Research Centre under Russia's Science Academy

PhD in Political Science