Authors

Doctor of Political Science; Professor at the Russian Academy of Sciences; Program Director of the Valdai International Discussion Club;Professor, MGIMO University

Senior Lecturer at the Department of Social Sciences, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Research Fellow at the Center of Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Independent expert

Faculty of International Relations of St. Petersburg State University

Lecturer at the Saint Petersburg State University

PhD in Chemistry, Chemical Weapons Expert, Former UN inspector in Iraq, Creator of Russian chemical weapons destruction technologies

Honorary President of the Institute for African Studies of the RAS, RAS Full Member, RIAC Member

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

PhD in Economics, Independent expert

Academic Director of Siberian Federal University, RAS Full Member

Rector of Moscow State Institute of International Relations (University) of the RF MFA, RAS Full Member, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Doctor of Economics, Chief Research Fellow of IMEMO, RAS

Ph.D. researcher, Faculty of Economics, University of Belgrade

Research Fellow, Center for Social and Political Studies, IDIP RFTA

PhD in international relations, contributor to the German Caucasus Watch

Doctor of Economics, Head of the Center for Strategic Analysis and Planning, Institute of Economics and Industrial Engineering within the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Member

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

Director of Center for International and European Law, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

PhD in Political Science, Philology Faculty of Petersburg Institute of Judaic Studies

Lecturer, Department of Asian and African Studies, MGIMO University, Research Fellow, Center for Japanese Studies, RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

PhD in Political Science; Associate Professor of the Department of Integration Processes, Senior Researcher at IMI MGIMO; Senior Researcher at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Senior Lecturer, Saint Petersburg State Electrotechnical University “LETI” and Saint Petersburg State University

Corresponding member, RAS, Dr. of Economics, Professor,
Dean of the Faculty for International Energy Business, Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas

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