Authors

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

Researcher, Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses

Program Director for Europe and Central Asia, International Crisis Group

Independent expert

Chairman of the Board of the Foundation for Development and Support of the Valdai Discussion Club

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

Deputy General Director, Head of the Analytical Department Information Analysis Centre, Moscow State University

Master Student at MGIMO-University

Doctor of Law, Professor, Head of the Department of International Law, MGIMO University, RIAC Member

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

Director of the Moscow School of Economics at the Lomonosov Moscow State University, RAS Full Member

Political scientist, Moldova

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

PhD in Political Science, Research Fellow at the Center for Political Studies, RAS Institute of Latin America

Senior Associate, Bedell Cristin, Singapore

Expert for the Center for African Studies, HSE University

Junior Research Fellow, Center for Strategic Planning Studies, IMEMO

Counselor of the National Committee for BRICS Research

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

Doctor of Political Science, Professor, Head of the Global Political Processes Department of the MGIMO University

PhD in Philology; Associate Professor; Department of the Theory of Law and Comparative Legal Science HSE

Editor-in-Chief of "International Affairs" journal

Ph.D. of Economics, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Russian, Eastern European and Central Asian Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS)

Ph.D., assistant professor of Russian history, Urals Federal University

PhD in Political Science, Director of the Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies,HSE University, RIAC Member

Ph.D. in Political Science; Senior Research Fellow and Head of the Center for Sociological and Political Studies, Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Doctor of History, Head of Center for the Middle East Studies of the IMEMO, Professor of the Oriental Studies Department of the MGIMO University, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies of the Institute of Oriental Studiesof the Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Member

PhD, Post-doctoral Research Fellow WZB Berlin Social Science Center, Research Fellow Cambridge Central Asia Forum

PhD in Geography, Head of the laboratory, RAS Institute of Economic Forecasting