Authors

Director of IMEMO RAS, RIAC member

Professor, Fudan University, Beijing Club for International Dialogue, Senior Expert

Senior research fellow at the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia

Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Witology, Chairman of Board of League of Independent Experts

PhD in Philosophy, Film critic

Ph.D. in History; Senior Research Fellow, Center for East Asian and Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Studies, MGIMO University under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation; Associate Professor, School of International Affairs, Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, Higher School of Economics National Research University

Ph.D. (History), Head of the Department of Ethno-Political Conflict at the Institute of Europe under the Russian Academy of Sciences

Program Director for Europe and Central Asia, International Crisis Group

President of the Jordan-based Political Studies of the Middle East Center, Founder of the US-based Geostrategic and Media Center

Director of Wider Europe Programme, European Council on Foreign Relations

Research Fellow, Group of Regional Political Problems of the East and South, Center for Development and Modernization Studies, Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Assistant researcher at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat)

Expert at the Laboratory of Asia-Pacific International Institutions and Multilateral Cooperation, Far Eastern State University School of Regional and International Studies, Сorrespondent of the Regional News Agency Data

Doctor of Historical Sciences. Deputy Director of the Foreign Policy Planning Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. Professor at the Department of Applied International Analysis, MGIMO University

Head of the "Africa in the Focus of Russian Interests" Programme at the MGIMO University

Ph.D in History, Assistant professor of the Chair of International Relations and Diplomacy at the Moscow Humanitarian University

Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Shahid Beheshti University (Tehran)

Doctor of Sociology, Professor of the Sociology Faculty of St. Petersburg State University

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Doctor of Political Science, Director, Head of the Center for Political Studies, RAS Institute of Latin America

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

D.Sc., Head of the Center for U.S. Foreign Policy Studies, U.S. and Canadian Studies Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D. in History, Head of the Center of the Indo-Pacific Region, Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D. in Political Science, Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

Senior Research Fellow of the Sasakawa Peace Foundation

Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies

PhD in Political Science

Senator of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member