Authors

Researcher at the Center for Central Asian Studies of the Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Lecturer in the School of International Affairs at the Higher School of Economics

RIAC President (2011–2026), Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (1998–2004), Russian Academy of Sciences Corresponding Member, RIAC Member

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

Editor-in-Chief of Russia Today TV channel, editor-in-chief of international news agency "Rossiya Segodnya"

PhD in Political Science, EU and CE policy department of the Institute of European Studies at MGIMO University

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

PhD in Law, MGIMO University

PhD in Economics, Head of the European Security Department RAS Institute of Europe

PhD in History, Director of the TSU Confucius Institute, Associate Professor, Department of World Politics, Faculty of Historical and Political Studies, Tomsk State University

Doctor of War Science, Professor, Academician of the Russian Academy of War Sciences

Ph.D, Associate Professor and the Vice Chair of the IR Department at Kirikkale University, Türkiye

Doctor of History, Professor at MGIMO-University

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

Doctor of History, Professor, Ural Federal University

Professor, Faculty of Economics, Administrative and Social Sciences, Kadir Has University

Postgraduate student, IMEMO RAS

Postgraduate at International and European Law Department, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

Doctor of Sciences in History, Chair of the Department of Contemporary History of Russia at the Institute of History and Archives of RSUH, RIAC Member

Analyst in charge of Former Soviet Union and Balkans Desk at Ce.S.I. Centro Studi Internazionali

Ph.D, researcher Global HIV Vaccine Enterprise

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

Independent expert

Director of the Center for advanced studies of national security of Russia, RAS Full Member, RIAC Member

Chairman, Supervisory Board, Centre for Strategic and Foreign Policy Studies (Belarus)

Leading research worker with the Center for Global Problems at the Institute of International Studies, MGIMO University, professor of linguistic semantics at Moscow State Linguistic University

Senior research fellow, RAS Institute of Economic Forecasting

Foreign Policy Analyst, Assistant researcher, Forum on Geopolitics, University of Cambridge