Authors

Expert for the Center for African Studies, HSE University

Head of the Research Division, Institute of Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Secretary General of the All-China Association for the Study of Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia; Deputy Director of the “One Belt and One Road” Research Centre at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Director of the Center for Post-Soviet Studies at the MGIMO University, 2nd Class Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Doctor of History

Director of the Foreign Policy Planning Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

D.Sc. (politics), Professor, North (Arctic) Federal University

MA, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University

PhD in History, Researcher at the RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

RIAC Member

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

RAS Full Member, RIAC member

Doctor of Philological Sciences, Director of the Institute of Far Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor at the Financial University, RIAC Member

INSOR Director for International Development

Visiting Professor at Waseda University

Chairman of the Executive Committee — Executive Chairman of the CIS

Associate Professor, Università Roma TRE

Independent Expert

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Chief Economist; Advisor to the Minister for Economic Development of the Russian Federation MTS Bank

Ph.D. in History, Deputy Chair of the Post-Soviet Foreign Countries Department at the Russian State University for the Humanities

PhD in Philosophy, Senior Lecturer at the HSE University

Third Secretary, Press-Attaché of the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Ankara

PhD in Political Studies, Associate Professor at European Studies Department, Saint Petersburg State University

Employee at the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Cairo, Central Staff of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation in the 2000s, currently works in the oil and gas industry

Graduate Student at MGIMO Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, Bachelor of Foreign Regional Studies (East Asia Regional Studies: Economy and Politics (China)), Institute of Business Studies, RANEPA under the President of the Russian Federation

Doctor of History, RIAC member

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

Doctor of History, Professor of the Higher School of Economics

PhD in Political Science, Head of the Theory of Politics Section IMEMO RAN

PhD in Engineering, Senior Research Fellow, Head of the CIS Institute Department of Eurasian Integration and SCO Development

Russian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, RIAC Member

Former Defense Secretary and Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom