Authors

Vice President of the Russian International Affairs Council, Executive Vice President of Etalon Group

Ph.D. in History, Research Associate, Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences

Senior Lecturer, Saint Petersburg State Electrotechnical University “LETI” and Saint Petersburg State University

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

Doctor of Economics, Professor of Foreign Relations Department at St. Petersburg State University

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

Doctor of Political Science, Leading researcher, RAS Institute of Philosophy

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

PhD, Applied Policy Research Institute of Armenia (APRI Armenia)

Independent expert

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

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

PhD in History, Professor at Chair of Theory and History of International Relations, Boris Yeltsin Urals Federal University

Correspondent, Expert magazine, Research fellow of the RAS U.S. and Canadian Studies Institute

PhD in Economics Vice Dean of International Journalism Department; Associate Professor, Department of the World Economy, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO University) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

Ph.D. in Political Science; Professor, Institute of International Relations at Pyatigorsk State University

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

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

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

University of Birmingham

Editor-in-Chief of the Arsenal of the Fatherland magazine

Associate Professor of International Relations (ret.), University of Cyprus

Professor, Doctor of Economics, Head of the Economics Department at the CIS Institute, Leading Research Fellow at the RAS Institute of Economics

Director of the Institute of Asia and Africa of MSU , RIAC Member

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

PhD in Philosophy, Senior Lecturer at the HSE University

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

Research Analyst at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat)

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

Doctor of Political Science, Expert at the Institute of Oriental studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, and a Professor in the Department of Oriental Studies in the Russian State University for Humanities

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the People's Republic of China, RIAC Member

Center for South-East Asia, Australia and Oceania Studies, RAS Institute for Oriental Studies