Authors

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

Ph.D. in Political Science; Professor, Institute of International Relations at Pyatigorsk State University

Independent Analyst

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

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

Professor, Doctor of Economics, Head of the Economics Department at the CIS Institute, Leading Research Fellow at the RAS Institute of Economics

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

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

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

Academic Supervisor of Social Sciences Department at Higher School of Economics, Professor, RIAC Member.

Editor-in-Chief of the Arsenal of the Fatherland magazine

Ph.D. in History, Full State Counsellor of the Russian Federation, 3rd class; expert on Syria, Eastern Mediterranean and the Gulf, Associate Professor of the Department of International Business at the Financial University Under the Government of the Russian Federation

Ph.D. in History, Scientific Advisor of The Evgeny Primakov Center for International Cooperation, Senior Research Fellow, Center for the Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies RAS

Correspondent, Expert magazine, Research fellow of the RAS U.S. and Canadian Studies Institute

Professor of Higher Education at the University of Oxford, Director of the ESRC/OFSRE Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE), Editor-in-Chief of Higher Education, Professorial Associate of the Melbourne Centre for Study of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne, and Lead Researcher at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow

Associate Professor of International Relations (ret.), University of Cyprus

Ph.D. in History, Research Associate, Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D, Vice-Rector for HR, Associate professor at the Department of Diplomacy, MGIMO University

Professor, National University of Villa Maria, Argentina

Doctor of Political Science, Deputy Director of the RAS Institute of Latin America

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the People's Republic of China, RIAC Member

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

Doctor of Economics, Director of the Far East Institute's Vietnam-ASEAN Research Centre under Russia's Science Academy

Ph.D. in diplomatic history, Deputy Director and Senior Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program

Department of Strategic Management of Fuel and Energy Sector, Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas

Political Scientist

PhD in Philosophy, Senior Lecturer at the HSE University

Vice President of the Russian International Affairs Council, Executive Vice President of Etalon Group