Authors

Deputy Chairman of the Russia mufties Council and Head of the International Affairs Department of DUM RF

Doctor of International Law, Professor, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, Deputy Director General of the International Information Agency "Rossiya Segodnya", RIAC Member

Political commentator, researcher and expert on Middle East affairs. President of the Moscow-based International Middle Eastern Studies Club (IMESClub)

BA in International Relations, Higher School of Economics

Research Assistant at the Center of Arab and Islamic Studies under the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

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

Research Fellow, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

PhD Student, RAS Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO RAN)

Former First Deputy Chief of the Military Science Department, Russian Armed Forces General Staff

Ph.D. in Economics, Leading Research Fellow, Center for Korean Studies, Institute of Far Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

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

Lecturer, Department of Legal Regulation of Fuel and Energy at the International Institute of Energy Policy and Diplomacy, MGIMO University

Academic Director, SKOLKOVO Institute for Emerging Market Studies

Program Coordinator, Website Content Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

Master of Asian and African Studies, Socio-Economic and Political Development of Modern Asia programme, Higher School of Economics; Project Manager, Alliance Media Strategy

Expert on Development Assistace

Transitional – Senior Lecturer, Department of International Relations, University of Colombo (Sri Lanka)

Director of Rural Infrastructure and Agro-Industry Division at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN, Professor

Doctor of History, Assistant Professor at St. Petersburg State University

PhD in Political Science, Associate Professor, MGIMO University

D.Sc. in Law, Professor, Department of European Law, MGIMO University; Professor, Institute of Management and Territorial Development, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

Expert at the ASEAN Center, Institute for International Studies, MGIMO University, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia

Doctor of History, professor, RAS Full Member, Head of the Center for Asia-Pacific Studies, Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnology of the Peoples of the Far-East, Far-Eastern Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Member

Professor of International Politics, Tufts University

Head, Center for Economic Integration, IDIP RFTA, Research Fellow, Institute for International Economics and Finance, RFTA

Lecturer at the Saint Petersburg State University

PhD, Head of Center for Russian-African Relations Studies at RAS Institute for African Studies

Doctor of Philosophy, Professor, RIAC Member

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

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Director of the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IE RAS), RAS Corresponding Member, RIAC member