Authors

Deputy Chairman, Commission of the Russian Federation for UNESCO

Doctor of History, Professor at MGIMO-University

Postdoctoral Researcher, Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding of the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, RIAC Visiting Research Fellow

Chair of the Board, Africa Business Initiative

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

Doctor of Philosophy, Professor of the Philosophy Department of the Pacific State University

Ph.D, heads the Eastern Europe and Eurasia Research Division at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) in Berlin

PhD in history

PhD in Political Science, Independent Analyst

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

PhD in Political Science, Assistant Professor at the Department of International Relations of the Eastern University – School of Regional and International Studies of the Far Eastern Federal University

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

Ph.D. (Hist.), Senior Research Fellow, Research Fellow of the Center for Development and Security Studies, Faculty of World Politics, Moscow State University

Ph.D. (History), Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

PhD in Philosophy, Adviser to the director of the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies, Asia and Middle East specialist

University of San-Francisco, Professor of International Relations

PhD in Geography, senior researcher, Institute of Demography HSE

Doctor of Science, Programme Director of the Valdai Discussion Club; Academic supervisor of the Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies, HSE University, RIAC Member

MENA Program Director, International Crisis Group (ICG)

Ph.D., Senior Fellow of The Institute of U.S. and Canadian Studies at Russian Academy of Sciences

Dr. of Political Science, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Problems of Transformation of Political Systems and Cultures, World Politics Department at Lomonosov Moscow State University

Ph.D., Senior researcher at IMEMO, Russian Academy of sciences

PhD in History, Theology Department, Urals State Mining University

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