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Taisuke Abiru

Senior Research Fellow of the Sasakawa Peace Foundation

Ahmed Salem Al-Wahishi

Ambassador of the Republic of Yemen to Russia

Giovanni Biava

Independent Analysts, Energy consultant, eXelen srl

Jessica Chin

M.A. Candidate, International Economics and Energy, Resources & Environment, Johns Hopkins University

Elena Corradi

Research assistant at ISPI for the Migration Programme

Thomas Frear

Research Fellow at the European Leadership Network

Ernesto Gallo

Tutor of business, law and social sciences at Kaplan International College, Affiliated Faculty at University College London

Orazio Maria Gnerre

Graduated in Political Science to the Catholic University of the Sacread Heart (Milan)

Ilgar Gurbanov

Research Fellow at the Center for Strategic Studies (Azerbaijan)

Marc Hecker

Research fellow at the French Institute for International Relations (Paris, France)

Hubertus Hoffmann

Ph.D. in Political Science, President World Security Network, Berlin

Dorothy Horsfield

PhD, Foundation Fellow in the Australian Studies Institute at Australian National University

Carla Leonetti

Dual Master in Governance and Global Affairs (MGIMO) and International Relations (LUISS)

Daniel Levy

President of the U.S./Middle East Project (USMEP), Director of the Middle East and North Africa Programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations (2012–2016)

Mathew Maavak

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues

Jeffrey Mankoff

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

Lawrence McDonnell

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

Costas Melakopides

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

Abbas Mohammadian

University of Birmingham

Giacomo Morabito

Independent expert

Merve Suna Özel Özcan

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

Romain Pradier

Dual Master in International Public Management (Sciences Po Paris) and International Security (MGIMO)

Luca Ratti

Associate Professor, Università Roma TRE

Meena Singh Roy

Research Fellow & Coordinator West Asia Centre, Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses

Rajorshi Roy

Researcher, Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses

Harley Schlanger

Vice President of the Schiller Institute USA, National Spokesman for Lyndon LaRouche

Ferit Temur

PhD Candidate in International Relations, specialist in Russian and Eurasian Affairs, Turkey

Carolijn van Noort

PhD Candidate, University of Otago, New Zealand

Christian Wollny

IE Business School in Madrid Graduate, MGIMO-University Graduate

Carlyle A. Thayer

Emeritus Professor, The University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra

Irina Abankina

Director, HSE Institute for Educational Studies

Aslan Abashidze

Professor, Doctor of Law; president of the Chair of International Law at the People’s Friendship University of Russia; member of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

Irina Abramova

Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Dr.Sc. (Econ.), Professor, Director of the RAS Institute for African Studies, RIAC Member

Mario Abou Zeid

Research Analyst Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut

Vladimir Avatkov

Ph.D. in Political Science, Associate Professor at the Department of International Relations, Diplomatic Academy of MFA, Russia

Aleksandr Avdeev

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Holy See and RF Representative to the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, RIAC member

Petr Aven

Ph.D. in Economics, RIAC Member

Vera Ageeva

Ph.D., Associate Professor, Deputy Head of the Department of Political Science at the Higher School of Economics National Research University Campus in St. Petersburg, Assistant at the Graduate School of Management, St. Petersburg State University

Anatoly Adamishin

Honorary President of the Non-Governmental Organization "Association of Euro-Atlantic Cooperation", Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Hamidreza Azizi

Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Shahid Beheshti University (Tehran)

Alexander Akimov

Doctor of Economics, Head of Department of Economic Research, RAS Institute for Oriental Studies

Aleksandr Aksenenok

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Vice-president

Valery Alekseev

Political observer

Denis Alexeev

PhD, Deputy Head, Institute of History and International Relations Saratov State University

Elena Alekseenkova

Ph.D. in Political Science, Leading Research Fellow, Head of the Center for Italian Studies, Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Associate Professor at the National Research University Higher School of Economics

Timur Aliev

Ph.D. in Economic Sciences, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for International Economics and Finance, IDIP RFTA; Senior Research Fellow, Russian Center for APEC Studies, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA)

Shehab Al Makahleh

President of the Jordan-based Political Studies of the Middle East Center, Founder of the US-based Geostrategic and Media Center

Maria Al Makahleh (Dubovikova)

Political commentator, researcher and expert on Middle East affairs. President of the Moscow-based International Middle Eastern Studies Club (IMESClub)

Abdulaziz AlDoseri

Assistant researcher at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat)

Omar Al-Ubaydli

Director of International and Geo-Political Studies at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat), affiliated associate professor of economics at George Mason University, USA

Saud al-Sarhan

Secretary-General of the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies

Elena Ananyeva

Doctor of Philosophy, Head of the Center for British Studies at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IE RAS)

Sergey Andreev

Postgraduate student, IMEMO RAS

Tatiana Andreeva

Ph.D. in History, Senior Research Fellow at European Political Studies Department, IMEMO RAN

Nikita Ansimov

PhD, Rector of the HSE University, RIAC Member

Anatoly Antonov

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member.

Alexander Antonov

Independent Expert

Lourdes Aranda

Ambassador, Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico, Mexican Sherpa to the G20

Ekaterina Arapova

PhD in Economics, Head of Department of Assessment and Coordination of International and Duel Master's Degree Programs, MGIMO-University, MFA of Russia

Aleksey Arbatov

Head of the Center for International Security of IMEMO, RAS Full Member, RIAC member

Sergei Arteyev

Ph.D. in Political Science, Research Associate at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IMEMO); Senior Lecturer at MGIMO University

Arif Asalyoglu

General Director, International Institute for the Development of Scientific Cooperation (MIRNaS)

Georgi Asatrian

Ph.D. in History, Research Fellow at the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, Valdai Discussion Club Expert

Ikhtiyar Aslanov

Head of the ICRC Regional Delegation for the Russian Federation and Belarus

Konstantin Asmolov

Leading Research Fellow at the Korean Studies Center, RAS Institute for Far Eastern Studies

Muriel Asseburg

Ph.D. in Political Science, Senior Fellow, Middle East and Africa Division, German Institute for International and Security Affairs / Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP)

Evgeny Astakhov

Ph.D in History, Professor of MGIMO University, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

Aleksander Atamanov

PhD in Technical Sciences, CEO and Co-Founder of TSS Ltd

Altay Atly

Associate Professor of International Relations, Koç University (Turkey)

Sergei Afontsev

Doctor of Economics, Head of Department of IMEМО RAS, Professor of MGIMO University, RAS Corresponding Member, RIAC Member

Irina Ahmed Zain Aidrous

Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia

Ildar Akhtamzyan

PhD in Hystory, Assistant Professor of MGIMO University

Kirill Babaev

Doctor of Philological Sciences, Director of the Institute of Far Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor at the Financial University, RIAC Member

Salvatore Babones

Associate Professor of Sociology & Social Policy, the University of Sydney

Lyudmila Babynina

PhD in Political Science, Director of the EU Political Integration Center at RAS Institute for European Studies

Andrey Baklitskiy

Senior Researcher, Institute for International Studies, MGIMO University; PIR Centre consultant

Polina Bakulina

Independent Analyst

Sergey Balmasov

Senior Analyst of the Centre for Crisis Society Studies, Expert of the Middle East Institute, RIAC

Amit Bhandari

Gateway House Fellow for Energy & Environment

Oleg Barabanov

MGIMO University, Professor; Program Director of the Valdai International Discussion Club

Igor Baranov

Ph.D. in Economics, School of Management, St. Petersburg State University

Vladimir Baranovsky

Head of Research, Center for Situational Analysis at RAS, member of the Directorate of IMEMO RAS, RAS Full Member, RIAC Member

Yuri Barmin

Analyst on Russia and its Middle East policy, MPhil International Relations, University of Cambridge

Vladimir Bartenev

Ph.D. (History), Leading Research Fellow, Institute for Advanced Strategic Studies, HSE University

Fyodor Basov

Research Fellow of the Department for European Political Studies at Institute of World Economy and International Relations

Sergey Basov

PhD in Pedagogy, Head of Methodic Department at Russian National Library, Board Member of Russian Library Association

Daria Basova

MGIMO University

Eduard Batalov

Doctor of Philosophy, MGIMO Professor

Yury Baturin

Chief Research Fellow of the RAS Vavilov Institute of Natural History and Technology, RAS Corresponding Member, RIAC Member

Vladimir Batyuk

Doctor of History, Head of the Political and Military Research Unit at the RAS Institute of USA and Canada Studies

Anna Batyuchenko

Institute of Oriental Studies

Alexander Bezborodov

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

Alexey Bezrukov

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

Yuri Belobrov

Ph.D., Senior Researcher, Institute of Current International Affairs, Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Foreign Affairs Ministry

Vladislav Belov

Ph.D in Economics, Deputy Director of the RAS Institute for Europe, Head of the Country and Regional Researches Department, Head of the German Research Center

Alexey Belogoriev

Deputy Director-General, Institute of Energy Strategy

Vyacheslav Belokrenitskiy

Doctor of History, Deputy Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Aleksandr Belonogov

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Eduard Belyi

PhD in Economics, Academic Secretary of RAS Institute for Latin American Studies

Rubén Beltrán

Mexico's Ambassador to the Russian Federation

Anastasia Belyaeva

Diplomat, scholar in Asian Studies (at the Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University) and an expert on Thailand

Yakov Berger

Senior Research Fellow at RAS Institute of Far Eastern Studies

Denis Berdakov

Political Scientist, Coordinator of Kyrgyzstan Analytical Club

Natalia Berenkova

Ph.D., Institute of International Relations and World History, N. I. Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod

Aleksandr Bessmertnykh

President of the International Foreign Policy Association, Chairman of the Global Council of Foreign Ministers of Foreign Affairs, President of the Alumni Association of MGIMO-University; Viktor Blazheev — Rector of the Kutafin Moscow State Law Academy, RIAC Member

Leonid Blyakher

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

Julia Bobrova

Ph.D. in Law, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Legislation and Comparative Law under the Government of the Russian Federation

Georgi Bovt

Editor-in Chief, Russkiy Mir Journal

Daniil Bogatyrev

Expert, Ukrainian Institute of Politics

Konstantin Bogdanov

Ph.D. in Technical Science, Senior Research Fellow, Center for International Security, IMEMO RAS

Tatiana Bogdasarova

Ph.D. in Political Science, Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

Alexey Boguslavskiy

Political Analyst

Irina Bolgova

PhD in History, Post-Soviet Studies Center at the MGIMO University

David Balton

Former Ambassador for Oceans and Fisheries, U.S. Department of State

Anton Boltochko

Economics Expert at Discussion Society Liberal Cub, Belarus

Natalia Bolshova

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

Ian Bond

Director of Foreign Policy at the Centre for European Reform

Anna Bondarenko

Research Assistant, Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies (CCEIS) at the Higher School of Economics National Research University (HSE University)

Timofey Bordachev

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

Nikolay Bordyuzha

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Nina Borevskaya

Doctor of History, RAS Institute for Far Eastern Studies, member of the Governing Board of the UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning

Dmitry Borisov

International Security expert, MA in International Affairs, Sciences Po Paris/MGIMO

Maxim Borodenko

Junior Research Fellow, Center for Post-Soviet Studies, Institute of Economics, Russian Academy of Sciences

Ivan Bocharov

Program Coordinator at the Russian International Affairs Council

Danila Bochkarev

Senior Fellow at East-West Institute, Brussels

Danil Bochkov

Graduate Student at MGIMO Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, Bachelor of Foreign Regional Studies (East Asia Regional Studies: Economy and Politics (China)), Institute of Business Studies, RANEPA under the President of the Russian Federation

Maxim Bratersky

Doctor of Political Science, Professor, Head of the World Politics Department of the Higher School of Economics

Desmond Browne

Vice Chair, Nuclear Threat Initiative; Chair of the Board of Trustees and Directors of the European Leadership Network; and former Secretary of State for Defence, United Kingdom

Olga Breininger

Ph.D. candidate in Slavic and Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University

Sergey Brilev

Deputy Director, TV Channel "Rossiya" (RTR), Manager and Presenter of “News on Saturday with Sergey Brilev”

Luiza Brodt

PhD Candidate and Senior Lecturer at Novosibirsk State University (Russia) and Research Fellow at the Stanford US-Russia Forum (USA)

Evgeny Buzhinsky

Chairman of PIR Center, Lieutenant-General (retired), RIAC Vice-president

Irina Busygina

Doctor of Political Science, Director of the Centre for Comparative Governance Studies, Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies, HSE Campus in St. Petersburg

Anatole Boute

Lecturer in Law at University of Aberdeen, Legal Adviser to the IFC Russia Renewable Energy Program

Olga Butorina

Dr. of Science (Economics), Corresponding Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor, Deputy Director for scientific work, RAS Institute of Europe, RIAC Member

Mikhail Butusov

Doctor of physics and mathematics, Expert in scientific research commercialization

Yevgeny Vaganov

Academic Director of Siberian Federal University, RAS Full Member

Priti Vaishnav

PHD Scholar, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

Tatyana Valovaya

Doctor of Economics, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, RIAC Member

Sofie Van Canegem

LLM Public International Law — International Environmental and Energy Law

Yuri Vanin

PhD in History, Leading Researcher, Department of Korea and Mongolia, RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

Venkatesh Varma

Former Ambassador of the Republic of India to the Russian Federation

Vladimir Vasiliev

Doctor of Economics, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for US and Canadian Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences

Alexander Vasilyev

PhD in History, Deputy Dean of the MGIMO University

Aleksey Vasilyev

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

Ilya Vedeneev

PhD. in History, Research Fellow, Center for Middle East Studies at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS)

Alina Vernigora

Junior Research Fellow, Center for Strategic Planning Studies, IMEMO

Alexander Vershinin

PhD in History, Research Fellow with the Crisis Society Study Centre

Sergey Veselovsky

PhD in Political Science, Associate Professor at World Politics Department, MGIMO University

Kulani Wijayabahu

Transitional – Senior Lecturer, Department of International Relations, University of Colombo (Sri Lanka)

Denis Vidineyev

PhD fellow at the Chair of International Law, PFUR Law School

Anatoly Vishnevsky

Doctor of Economics, Director of the Center for Human Demography and Ecology, RAS Institute of Economic Forecasting

Vladimir Schweitzer

Doctor of History, Chief Researcher of the RAS Institute for European Studies

Alexei Vlasov

PhD in History, Deputy Dean of the History Faculty, Moscow State University

Elena Vodopianova

PhD, Professor, Senior Researcher of the Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences

Eugenia Voiko

PhD in Political Science, Assistant Professor of Applied Political Science Department at Financial University of the Russian Federation Government

Vadim Voinikov

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

Fyodor Voytolovsky

Director of IMEMO RAS, RIAC member

Ruslan Volkov

Employee at the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Cairo, Central Staff of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation in the 2000s, currently works in the oil and gas industry

Andrey Volodin

Doctor of History, Professor, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Eurasian Studies, Diplomatic Academy of Russian Foreign Ministry

Alexander Vorobyov

Research Fellow at The Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Yegor Voronin

Ph.D, researcher Global HIV Vaccine Enterprise

Lev Voronkov

Doctor of Political Science, Professor, MGIMO University

Konstantin Voronov

PhD in History, Sector Head at RAS Institute of World Economy and International Relations

Alexander Vorontsov

PhD in History, Head of the Korea and Mongolia Department, RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

Vladislav Vorotnikov

North European and Baltic Studies Center at the MGIMO University

Tatiana Vorotnikova

PhD in Political Science, Academic Secretary at the Institute of Latin American Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Alexander Vylegzhanin

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

Aleksander Vysotsky

Department of International Relations and Foreign Policy of Russia, MGIMO-University

Olga Vykhovanets

Deputy director of Department of implementation of Program for assisting compatriots in foreign residence in their voluntary resettlement to the Russian Federation of Ministry of Regional Development of Russia

Natalia Viakhireva

PhD in Political Science, Independent Analyst

Akop Gabrielyan

PhD in international relations, contributor to the German Caucasus Watch

Svetlana Gavrilova

Ph.D., RIAC Acting Director of Programs

Eduard Galimullin

Ph.D. in Political Sciences, Research Fellow, Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies (CCEIS) at the Higher School of Economics National Research University (HSE University)

Areg Galstyan

Ph.D. in History

Rustam Ganiev

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

Valery Garbuzov

Doctor of History, RIAC member

Hall Gardner

Professor and Chair, Department of International and Comparative Politics American University of Paris

Murad Gassanly

PhD candidate at the School of Politics and International Relations, Cardiff University

Kamran Gasanov

Ph.D, Senior lecturer at People’s Friendship University of Russia

Nana Gegelashvili

PhD in Political Science, Head of the Center for Regional Studies at RAS Institute for the U.S. and Canadian Studies

Maria Gershuni

Masters of Arts candidate at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies

Alina Gilmanova

MA, International Relations Pierre Mendès-France University, Post-graduate, UNICAMP University, Brazil

Shaen Glessner

Editor of Russian Information Agency “Novosti” (RIANOVOSTI)

Kira Godovanyuk

PhD in politics, senior researcher at the Centre for British Studies at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences, expert at the RIAC

Oleg Golishnikov

MA student, National Research University – Higher School of Economics

Valeria Gorbacheva

Counselor of the National Committee for BRICS Research

Evgenia Gorushina

Research Fellow

Vladimir Graivoronsky

Head of the Mongolia Unit, Senior Researcher at the Korea and Mongolia Division, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Herman Gref

President, Chairman of the Board of Sberbank of Russia

Vladimir Grigoryev

Director of the Department of the Government Support of Periodical Press and Book Industry, Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Leonid Leonid Grigoryev

PhD, Tenured Professor, Member of the HSE Academic Council, Academic Supervisor, Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, HSE University

Ruslan Grinberg

Scientific Director of the RAS Institute of Economics, RAS Corresponding Member

Elizaveta Gromoglasova

PhD in Political Science

Alexey Gromyko

Director of the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IE RAS), RAS Corresponding Member, RIAC member

Alexander Grushko

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Andrey Gubin

PhD in Political Science, Associate Professor at IR Department, Far Eastern Federal University, Adjunct Professor at the North-East Asia Research Center, Jilin University, China

Pavel Gudev

PhD in History, Senior Research Fellow at RAS IMEMO Sector for US Foreign and Domestic Policy

Guan Guihai

Ph. D., Executive Vice President of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies of Peking University

Gurgen Gukasian

Senior researcher at the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, the Institute of Oriental Studies, RAS, associate professor at People’s Friendship University of Russia

Igbal Guliyev

PhD, Associate Professor, Deputy Director, International Institute of Energy Policy and Diplomacy, MGIMO-University

Olga Gulina

PhD in Law, PhD of Potsdam University

Maria Gurova

Geneva School of Diplomacy and International Relations

Leonid Gusev

Ph.D. in History, Expert, Institute of International Studies, Moscow State Institute of International Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (MGIMO)

Elena Guskova

Doctor of History, Director of the Center for the Study of the Contemporary Balkan crisis of the RAS Institute of Slavic Studies, Academician of the Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences

Aleksandr Gushchin

PhD in History, Associate Professor, Department of Post-Soviet Countries, Russian State University for the Humanities, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Post-Soviet and Interregional Studies

Vladimir Davydov

Scientific Director of the RAS Institute of Latin America, RAS Corresponding Member

Ivan Danilin

Head of the Department of Science and Innovation at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Senior Fellow at the Laboratory of International Process Analysis at MGIMO under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

Dmitry Danilov

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

Artem Dankov

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

Andrey Devyatkov

PhD in History, senior research fellow, Center for Post-Soviet Studies, Institute of Economics, RAS; associate professor, Department of Regional Issues in Global Politics, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Denis Degterev

Professor, Doctor of Political Sciences, Candidate of Economic Sciences, Head of the Department of Theory and History of International Relations, RUDN

Irina Dezhina

Dr. of Economics, Head of the Sector of Economics of Science and Innovative Processes RAS Institute of World Economy and International Relations

Tatiana Deich

PhD in History, Leading Researcher at RAS Institute for African Studies

Igor Delanoë

Ph.D. in History, Research affiliate at the Ukrainian Research Institute (Harvard University) and the Center for International and European Studies, Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Deputy Director, Analytical Center Observo, French-Russian Chamber of Commerce

Sergey Demidenko

PhD in History, expert at the Institute of Strategic Estimates and Analysis, Assistant Professor at the Higher School of Economics

Oleg Demidov

International Information Security and Global Internet Governance Program Coordinator, PIR Center

Екатерина Деминцева

К.и.н., заведующая Центром истории и культурной антропологии Института Африки РАН, эксперт РСМД

Aleksandr Demchenko

PhD in History, Arab and Islamic Studies at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Mikhail Denisenko

PhD in Economics, Associate Professor, Deputy Director of the Institute of Demography, HSE

Sergei Denisentsev

Centre for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies

Andrey Denisov

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, Member of the Council of the Federation, RIAC Member

Igor Denisov

Senior Research Fellow at MGIMO University, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Far Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Andrei Derbenev

PhD in Political Science, Andrew Derbenev is a Researcher at the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, and an Associate Professor in Moscow State Pedagogical University

Larisa Derizlazova

Doctor in History, Professor at Department of world politics, Tomsk State University

Edward Dzhagityan

PhD in Economics, MBA, Lead Research Fellow (Center for International Economic Relations Studies), Institute for Finance and Economic Research, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia

Ksenia Djalagoniya

Program Coordinator, Website Content Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

Mohammad Waqas Jan

Senior Research Associate at the Strategic Vision Institute (Pakistan)

Tedo Japaridze

Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee for Foreign Affairs of Georgia, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia, former Chairman of the National Security Council of Georgia

Steven Jermy RN

Commodore, Former Strategy Director in the British Embassy in Afghanistan, author of Strategy for Action: Using Force Wisely in the 21st Century

Aleksandr Djibrayev

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

Aleksandr Dzasokhov

Deputy Chairman, Commission of the Russian Federation for UNESCO

Marco Di Liddo

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

Michalis Diakantonis

Economist and International Relations Analyst, Project Coordinator of “Greece, Cyprus, Egypt & Israel: Opportunities and Restrictions of a Mediterranean Coalition” at the International Relations Institute of Athens

Turhan Dilmaç

Head of Department, Deputy Director of the General Office of Eastern-European Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey

Antonia Dimou

RIEAS Senior advisor based in Athens, Greece and Associate at the Centre for Strategic Studies, University of Jordan

Vladimir Dmitriev

Head of the Department "Public-Private Partnership", Faculty "Higher School of Management", Financial University, RIAC Member

James Dobbins

Ambassador, Senior fellow and distinguished chair in Diplomacy and Security at the RAND Corporation

Joseph Dobbs

Research Fellow, European Leadership Network

Vyacheslav Dolgov

Professor of the Diplomacy Department of the MGIMO University, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

Boris Dolgov

Senior research fellow at the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Alexey Dolinsky

Cand.Sc.(Ped.), Junior Research Fellow, Moscow Lomonosov University

Leonid Drachevsky

Executive Director of Gorchakov Foundation for Public Diplomacy Support, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Daniel Drezner

Professor of International Politics, Tufts University

Alexander Th. Drivas

PhD, Project Coordinator of “Greece, Cyprus, Egypt & Israel: Opportunities and Restrictions of a Mediterranean Coalition” Project at the International Relations Institute of Athens

Leokadia Drobizheva

Doctor of History, Head of the Research Center of International Relations, RAS Institute of Sociology

Evgeniya Drozhashchikh

Russian International Affairs Council Expert, Member of Space Generation Advisory Council

Elena Dunaeva

Ph.D. in History, Senior Researcher at the Center for Middle East Studies of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the RAS; Associate Professor at the Department of Economics and Economic Geography of Asian and African countries, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Aleksey Dundich

Head of Dual Master's Programs, Master's Programs Directorate, MGIMO-University

Roman Durnev

Head of the Scientific and Organizational Department at the Russian Academy of Missile and Artillery Sciences, Doctor of Engineering, Associate Professor

Viktor Dukhovny

Director of Research and Information Centre, Intergovernmental Water Management Coordination Commission for Central Asia, Member of the World Water Council

Aleksandr Dynkin

President of the IMEMO, RAS Full Member, Chairman of the RIAC Scientific Council, RIAC Member.

Joseph E. Fallon

Subject Matter Expert on Islamic Extremism, and cultures, tribes, and sects of the Middle East and Central Asia, Cultural Intelligence Consultant for a private U.S. firm

Vladimir Evseev

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

Ekaterina Egorova

First Deputy Head of the Russian Federal Migration Service

Maria Egorova

Doctor of law, Professor, Assistant Rector for Research, Chairman of the Council for the coordination of international and innovation activities of the Kutafin Moscow state law University, RIAC Member

Dmitry Ezhov

Head of International Cooperation Department, Integration Development Department, EEC

Raisa Epikhina

Researcher, Junior Research Fellow at the Lomonosov Moscow State University, Senior Lecturer at Asian and African Studies from Moscow State University

Natalia Eremina

PhD in Political Science, Senior Lecturer, School of International Relations, Saint Petersburg State University

Alexander Yermakov

Research Fellow at the Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations under the Russian Academy of Sciences

Victor Yesin

Ph.D. (Military Sciences), Col. Gen. (Ret.), Research Professor, Advanced National Security Studies Center, Expert Institute, Higher School of Economics National Research University, Moscow

Aleksey Yefremov

Ph.D. in Law, Associate Professor at the Department of State and Law Theory, International Law and Comparative Legal Studies, Voronezh State University; Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Public Administration Technologies at the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration

Igor Zhukovsky

PhD in Political Science

Viktoria Zhuravleva

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

Alexander Zhuravsky

Director of Inter-ethnic relations Department of Ministry of Regional Development of Russia

Vitaly Zhurkin

Director Emeritus of the RAS Institute of Europe, RAS Full Member

Elena Zavyalova

Head of Department of Economic Policy and Public-Private Partnership at MGIMO-University

Vladislav Zagashvili

Dr. of Economics, Head of the Foreign Economy Policy Sector, RAS Institute of World Economy and International Relations

Andrey Zagorsky

Head of the Department for Disarmament and Conflict Resolution Studies at the Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor of MGIMO-University, RIAC Member

Ella Zadorozhnyuk

PhD in history, Department of Modern History and Socio-Political issues of Central and South Eastern European Countries, RAS Institute of Slavonic Studies

Janna Zayonchkovskaya

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

Yurii Zaycev

PhD in Economics, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Applied Economic Studies, Presidential Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration

Fedor Zamuruev

Master Student at MGIMO-University

Aleksei Zakharov

PhD (History), Research Fellow at School of International Affairs, Higher School of Economics, Moscow

Irina Zviagelskaya

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

Andrey Zeltyn

Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, School of Asian Studies, National Research University Higher School of Economics

Elena Zinovieva

Ph.D. in Political Science, Professor, Department of World Politics at MGIMO University

Pavel Zolotarev

PhD in Technical Sciences, retired Major General

Mikael Zolyan

Ph.D. in History, Associate Professor, Yerevan State Linguistic University

Tatiana Zonova

Doctor of Political Science, Professor of the Diplomacy Department of the MGIMO University

Ivan Zuenko

Senior research fellow at MGIMO Institute for International Studies, Center for Euroasian Studies

Albert Zulkharneev

PIR Center Director

Galia Ibragimova

Consultant at PIR-Center for Policy Studies

Sergei Ivanets

Rector of the Far Eastern Federal University (2012–2016), RIAC member.

Igor Ivanov

President of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (1998–2004)

Ilya Ivanov

Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights

Natalia Ivanova

Academician, Doctor of Economic Sciences, First Deputy Director, IMEMO RAN

Zbigniew Iwanowski

Doctor of Political Science, Director of Center for Political Studies of the RAS Institute of Latin America, Professor of Global Processes Department at Lomonosov Moscow State University

Irina Ivakhnyuk

Doctor of Economy, Professor, Professor, Member of the Global Migration Policy Associates

Gleb Ivashentsov

Russian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, RIAC Member, RIAC Vice-President

Vitaly Ignatenko

President of World Russian Press Foundation (WARP Foundation), professor, RIAC member

Alexander Ignatov

Ph.D. in Political Science, Senior Researcher at the International Institutes Research Center at the Institute of Applied Economic Policies, Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA)

Alexey Ilin

Master of International Affairs (Texas A&M University, 2015)

Vladimir Iontsev

Doctor of Economics, Professor, Head of the Population Studies Chair at Economy Department, Moscow State University

Leonid Issaev

General and Russian History Department of the Higher School of Economics

Tatiana Isachenko

Doctor of Economics, Professor, Department of International Economic Relations and Foreign Economic Relations, MGIMO University

Pyotr Iskenderov

PhD in History, Senior Research Associate, Institute for Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Science

Eugenia Israelyan

PhD in History, Leading Researcher at RAS Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies

Igor Istomin

PhD in Political Science, Senior Lecturer, Department of Applied International Analysis, MGIMO University

Wolfgang Ischinger

Ambassador (rtd), President, Munich Security Conference Foundation; and former State Secretary, German Federal Foreign Office, Germany

Rostislav Ishchenko

President of the Center for Systems Analysis and Forecasting, Ukraine

Vitaly Kabernik

Senior Expert, Center for Military and Political Studies, MGIMO MFA

Akio Kawato

Visiting Professor at Waseda University

Nikolay Kaveshnikov

Political Science PhD, associate professor, head of department of European integration at MGIMO-University, leading research fellow at the RAS Institute of Europe

Pavel Kadochnikov

Deputy Finance Minister of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Andrey Kazantsev

Doctor of Political Science, Senior Researcher at the Analytical Centre of Institute of International Studies, MGIMO University

Alexey Kalinin

Academic Director, SKOLKOVO Institute for Emerging Market Studies

Nora Topor Kalinskij

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

Edoardo Camili

CEO and co-founder of Hozint - Horizon Intelligence, founder and director of the International Security Observer

Alexander Kamkin

PhD in Philology, Leading Researcher at the German Studies Center of the RAS Institute for European Studies

Evgeny Kanaev

PhD in History, Center for Asia-Pacific Studies, Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Leading Research Fellow

Alexander Kanapin

PhD, Head of Computational Genomics, Department of Oncology, University of Oxford, Russia’s Representative in ELIXIR Consortium

Pavel Kandel

Ph.D. (History), Head of the Department of Ethno-Political Conflict at the Institute of Europe under the Russian Academy of Sciences

Pavel Kanevsky

PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and Sociology of Political Processes, Faculty of Sociology, MSU

Rachel Cunningham

A.B. Political Science, University of Chicago, MA candidate at the University of Western Australia

Tatyana Kanunnikova

Independent journalist

Natalia Kapitonova

Doctor of History, Professor at MGIMO-University

Leonid Karabeshkin

PhD in Political Science, Research Centre for International and Regional Politics (Saint-Petersburg), Project Coordinator, Euroacademy (Tallinn), professor

Sergei Karaganov

Dean of the Department of World Economics and World Politics of the National Research University-Higher School of Economics

Pavel Karasev

Research Fellow, MSU Institute of Information Security Issues

Grigory Karasin

Member of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Tatiana Karasova

PhD in History, Head of Israel Department at RAS Institute for Oriental Studies

Liliya Karachurina

Senior research fellow, RAS Institute of Economic Forecasting

Sergey Karelov

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

Clarita Carlos

PhD Professor, University of the Philippines (ret.), Executive Director, Center for Political and Democratic Reforms, Inc.

Vyacheslav Karlusov

Doctor of Economy, Professor of MGIMO, Chief Scientific Fellow of the Far East Institute of RAS

Eldar Kasayev

PhD in Economics

Irina Kasimova

Third Secretary, Press-Attaché of the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Ankara

Mark N. Katz

Professor of government and politics at George Mason University

Vassily Kashin

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

Yuri Kvashnin

PhD in History, Head of the European Union Studies Department, IMEMO RAN

Tony Kevin

Former senior Australian diplomat

Andrei Kelin

Andrei Kelin, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, RIAC Member

Seçkin Köstem

Assistant Professor, Department of International Relations, Bilkent University (Turkey)

Dmitriy Kiku

PhD in Political Science

Fares Kilzie

Chairman of the Board of the CREON Group, RIAC Member

Anna Kireeva

PhD in Political Science, Associate Professor, Department of Asian and African Studies; Researcher, Center for Comprehensive Chinese Studies and Regional Projects at MGIMO University

Vladimir Kiselev

PhD in Economics, Head of the innovative direction at the Interdepartmental Analytical Center

Sergei Kislyak

Member of the Council of the Federation, RIAC member

Ian Clark

Academic librarian at the University of East London

Andrey Klemeshev

President of Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, RIAC member

Andrei Klepach

Chief economist at the VEB.RF, RIAC member.

Yekaterina Klimenko

Research Fellow, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

Kazushige Kobayashi

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

Leonid Kovachich

Journalist, Sinologist

Eugeny Kozhokin

Dean of the Faculty of International Relations and Foreign Area Studies of the Institute of History and Archives of RSUH, RIAC member.

Vladimir Kozin

Ph.D., Leading Expert, Military-Political Studies Center, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO)

Alexander Kozintsev

Lecturer at the Department of Comparative Politics, PhD student at MGIMO University

Vadim Kozyulin

Ph.D. in Political Science, Head of the Center for Global Studies & International Relations at the Diplomatic Academy under the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Andrei Kokoshin

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

Kirill Koktysh

PhD in Political Science, Political Theory Department of the MGIMO University

Viktor Koksharov

Rector of the Urals Federal University named after the First Russian President B.N. Yeltsyn

Ekaterina Koldunova

Ph.D. (Political Science), Director of the ASEAN Centre, Associate Professor at the Department of Oriental Studies, MGIMO-University

Anton Kolonin

PhD in Technical Sciences, Founder, Aigents, Architect, SingularityNET

Ilya Komarov

Postgraduate at RAS Institute of World Economy and International Relations

Mikhail Konarovsky

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of International Research, MGIMO University, RIAC Member

Margarita Kononova

Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Social, Political and Economic Problems in the 20th Century, Institute of World History, Russian Academy of Sciences

Dmitry Konukhov

Researcher at Energy and Security Center, Eugeny Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations

Valery Konyshev

Doctor of Political Science, professor at Saint Petersburg state university

Vladimir Koptelov

Retired Councellor RF Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Victor Korgun

Doctor of History, Head of the Afghanistan Sector of the RAS Institute of Oriental Studies, Professor

Evgeny Korendyasov

PhD, Head of Center for Russian-African Relations Studies at RAS Institute for African Studies

Maxim Kornev

PhD in Philology, Associate professor, Mass-Media Institute, Russian State University for the Humanities

Andrey Korobkov

Professor at Middle Tennessee State University

Vladimir Korovkin

Head of Digital and Innovations Research, Associate Professor of Business Practice, Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO

Alexander Korolev

PhD., HSE Professor

Alexander Korolev

Ph.D. in Political Science, Deputy Director of the Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies (CCEIS), HSE University

Alexander Korolkov

PhD in History, Expert on Latin America expert

Andrey Kortunov

Ph.D. in History, Academic Director of the Russian International Affairs Council, RIAC Member

Pyotr Kortunov

Visiting Fellow at the Applied Policy Research Institute, based in Yerevan

Sophia Kortunova

International College of Economics and Finance, Higher School of Economics

Grigory Kosach

Professor of the Chair of Modern East Department of History, Political Science and Law, Russian State University for the Humanities

Konstantin Kosachev

Deputy Speaker of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Nickolay Kosukhin

Doctor of History, Professor of Russian University of Peoples’ Friendship, Institute of African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Alexander Kotov

Ph.D. in Economics, Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for the Arctic and Northern economies under the Council for the Study of Productive Forces (SOPS),Associate Professor of Philosophy, Economics and Social Sciences Department of the Moscow State University of Geodesy and Cartography

Matthew Cottee

Research Analyst, Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Programme The International Institute for Strategic Studies

Michael Kofman

Analyst at CNA Corporation

H.E. Anicet Gabriel Kotchofa

President and CEO of Vegarus Group Africa Business Initiative, Eurasian Economic Cooperation organization, CEO of the International Coordination Council of Alumni (INCORVUZ) FISU Executive Committee Member

Pavel Koshkin

Ph.D., Fellow of The Institute of U.S. and Canadian Studies at Russian Academy of Sciences, Former editor-in-chief of Russia Direct, an analytical media outlet

Ilya Kravchenko

PhD in political science

Irina Kraeva

Ph.D. in Philology, Rector of Moscow State Linguistic University, RIAC Member

Alexander Kramarenko

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Oleg Krivolapov

Head of the Department of Military-Political Research at the Institute for US and Canadian Studies under the Russian Academy of Sciences

Andrey Krivorotov

Assistant Professor at the Odintsovo branch, MGIMO University

Alexander Krylov

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Research Associate at the Institute for International Studies (IIS) of Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO)

Alexander Krylov

President, Society of Caucasian Studies Experts

Stanislav Kuvaldin

PhD in History, independent journalist

Nadezhda Kudeyarova

PhD in History, Leading Researcher at RAS Institute for Latin American Studies

Yulia Kudryashova

PhD in History, Economic Theory Department of the MGIMO University

Elena Kudryashova

Doctor of Philosophy, Professor, RIAC Member

Vasily Kuznetsov

PhD in Political Science, Deputy Director for Academic Work under the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC member

Valentin Kuznetsov

Retired Vice-admiral

Aleksey Kuznetsov

Corresponding Member of RAS, Doctor of Economics, RIAC Member

Aleksei Kuznetsov

Doctor of Economics, Senior Research Fellow and Professor at the Department of World Economy and World Finance, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation

Elena Kuzmina

PhD in Political Science, head of the post-Soviet countries’ economic development section at the Institute of Economics, RAS

Ksenia Kuzmina

Independent Analyst

Yaroslav Kuzminov

Rector of the National Research University-Higher School of Economics

Konstantin Kuzmichev

Deputy Head, Center for Economic Integration, IDIP RFTA

Lukasz Kulesa

Research Director at the European Leadership Network

Sergey Kulik

INSOR Director for International Development

Lydia Kulik

Ph.D. in History, Head of India Studies at the Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO, Senior Research Fellow at RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

Yuriy Kulintsev

Deputy Director of the Institute of Far Eastern Studies (IFES) Russian Academy of Sciences

Olga Kulkova

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

Kiran Kumar

Former Chairman of Indian Space Research Organization

Alexey Kupriyanov

PhD in History, Senior research fellow, The Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Vladislav Kurbatskiy

Third Secretary, RF Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Sergei Lavrenov

Chief of Moldova Department, Institute of CIS Countries

Sergey Lavrov

Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Chairman of Board of Trustees of RIAC

Anna Lavut

PhD in Economics, Leading Research Associate at the RAS Institute for Latin American Studies

Maria Lagutina

Ph.D. in Political Science, Associate Professor at the Global Politics Department of St. Petersburg State University

Milan Lazovich

Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

Thomas Lines

Consultant in Trade and Food Security, and Director of “Green House”

Youry Lambert

International lawyer, Ph.D. in History, Ph.D. in Law

Maria Lapenko

PhD in History, Associate Professor at Chernyshevsky National Research Saratov State University

Ivan Lapshin

PhD in Philosophy, Expert in Latin languages

Alexander Larin

PhD in History, Leading Researcher at RAS Institute for Far Eastern Studies

Viktor Larin

Doctor of History, professor, RAS Full Member, Head of the Center for Asia-Pacific Studies, Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnology of the Peoples of the Far-East, Far-Eastern Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Member

Alevtina Larionova

Program Coordinator and Website Editor at the Russian International Affairs Council

Marlene Laruelle

Ph.D., Associate Director of and Research Professor at the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES), Elliott School of International Affairs, The George Washington University

Vassily Lata

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

Sergey Lebedev

Chairman of the Executive Committee — Executive Chairman of the CIS

Marina Lebedeva

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

Aleksandr Levchenkov

Ph.D. in History, Deputy Chair of the Post-Soviet Foreign Countries Department at the Russian State University for the Humanities

Mathieu Lemoine

Independent Expert

Nikita Lipunov

Analyst at MGIMO Institute for International Studies (IMI MGIMO)

Yaroslav Lissovolik

RIAC Member

Vladimir Likhachev

Ph.D. in Technical Sciences, Deputy Director of the Energy Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Deputy Director of the Centre for Sustainable Infrastructure Development Research, Institute of Economics and Utility Regulation, Higher School of Economics

Kirill Likhachyov

Ph.D. in History, School of International Relations, Saint Petersburg State University

Anastasia Likhacheva

PhD in Political Sciences, Dean of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, National Research University Higher School of Economics

Alexander Lomanov

Doctor of History, Chief Researcher at RAS Institute for Far Eastern Studies, RIAC Member

Aleksandr Losev

Research fellow at Insitute of Latin Anerica of RAS

Pavel Luzin

PhD in Political Science, Independent expert

Sergey Luzyanin

Head of the Joint Department with the RAS Institute of Far Eastern Studies at the HSE University, RIAC member

Vladimir Lukin

RIAC member

Artyom Lukin

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

Fyodor Lukyanov

Editor-in-Chief of Russia in Global Affairs magazine, Chairman of the Presidium of the Council for Foreign and Defense Policy, RIAC Member.

Grigory Lukyanov

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

Sergey Lunev

Doctor of History, Professor of the Oriental Studies Department of the MGIMO University

Mikhail Lysenko

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ph.D. in Legal Sciences, Deputy Head of the Department of International Law at MGIMO University

Xu Liang

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

Robert M. Cutler

Senior research fellow in the Institute of European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, Carleton University, Canada

Vladimir Mazyrin

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

Igor Makarov

PhD in Economics, Associate Professor of the World Economy Department, Academic Head of the World Economy Undergraduate Program at HSE- University

Bruce McConnell

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

David McCrone

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

Vladimir Malakhov

Doctor of Political Science, Leading researcher, RAS Institute of Philosophy

Alexey Malashenko

Member of the Scientific Council, Chairman of the Religion, Society, and Security Program at the Carnegie Moscow Center

Olga Malinova

Dr. of Philosophy, Senior Research Fellow RAS INION, Professor, MGIMO University, Professor, Higher School of Economics, Honorary President, Russian Political Science Association

Dina Malysheva

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

Yulia Maltseva

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

Anatoly Malyuk

Ph.D, Head of Chair, Cybernetics and Information Security Department, Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (National Research Nuclear University)

Alexander Mamaev

PhD in Technical Sciences, CEO of Digital Forensic Laboratory

Ruslan Mamedov

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

Nna Mamedova

Chair of the Iran Section, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Associate Professor at the Department of World Economy, MGIMO University

Mikhail Mamonov

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

Anna Manafova

Expert at the Institute of the Middle East, graduate of International Institute of Energy Policy and Diplomacy at MGIMO

Cameron Munter

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

Mikhail Margelov

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

Anton Mardasov

Independent Analyst

Simon Marginson

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

Sergey Markedonov

Ph.D in History, Leading Research Fellow at MGIMO University, Editor-in-Chief of International Analytics Magazine

Natalya Markushina

Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor at the Department of World Politics, Faculty of International Relations, Director of World Politics Master’s Program, St. Petersburg State University

Boris Martynov

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

Luke March

PhD, Senior Lecturer in Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics, Deputy Director of the Princess Dashkova Russia Center, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

Aleksey Maslov

Director of the Institute of Asia and Africa of MSU , RIAC Member

Elena Maslova

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

Nigyar Masumova

PhD in Economics Vice Dean of International Journalism Department; Associate Professor, Department of the World Economy, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO University) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

Igor Matveev

Ph.D. in History, Full State Counsellor of the Russian Federation, 3rd class; expert on Syria, Eastern Mediterranean and the Gulf

Konstantin Matveenkov

Master of Economics, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), Program jointly with UIBE (Beijing): “Russian and China: Economic and Political Trends in Eurasia”

Ranjan Mathai

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

Vladimir Mau

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

Adolf Mahin

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

Artur Makhlaiuk

Independent Analyst

Omar Mahmood

Research Analyst at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat)

Timur Makhmutov

PhD in Political Science

Evgeniya Makhmutova (Voyko)

PhD in Political Science, Associate Professor, Political Science Department, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation

Nikolay Mezhevich

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

Dmitry Mezentsev

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Sergei Melkonian

PhD, Applied Policy Research Institute of Armenia (APRI Armenia)

Elena Melkumyan

Doctor of Political Science, Expert at the Institute of Oriental studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, and a Professor in the Department of Oriental Studies in the Russian State University for Humanities

Andrey Melville

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

Julia Melnikova

PhD in Political Science, Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

Nikita Mendkovich

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

Maria Merkulova

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

Aleksey Meshkov

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Aza Migranyan

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

Octavian Milevsky

Political Scientist

Sergey Minasyan

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

Ildar Minyazhetdinov

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

Elshad Mirbashir oglu

Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor at the Department of Political Science and Political Management in the Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan

Denis Mirgorod

A violent end to the Libyan crisis also seems unlikely in the near term, as the forces in the country’s east will have trouble organizing an effective attack on Tripoli without the support of Russia, whose military has other things in sight

Gevorg Mirzayan

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

Viktor Mironenko

Ph.D. in History, Senior Researcher at the Department of Central and Eastern European Studies at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Georgi Mirsky

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

Valery Mikhailenko

Doctor of History, Professor, Ural Federal University

Evgenia Mikhaylova

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

Dmitry Moiseev

PhD in Philosophy, Senior Lecturer at the HSE University

Marcelo Montes

Professor, National University of Villa Maria, Argentina

Igor Morgulov

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

Maria Morgunova

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

Vladimir Morozov

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

Dmitry Mosiakov

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

Kapil Mohan

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

Ksenia Muratshina

PhD in History, Professor at Chair of Theory and History of International Relations, Boris Yeltsin Urals Federal University

Victor Murakhovsky

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

Nikolai Murashkin

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

Farit Mukhametshin

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Vadim Mukhanov

PhD in History, Caucasus Problems and Regional Security Center at the MGIMO University

Nora Mueller

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

Victor Nadein-Raevsky

PhD in Philosophy, Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), Russian Academy of Science

Yevgeny Nadorshin

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

Yuri Nadtochei

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

Paul Naidu

Major General, Strategic Advisor, Synergia Foundation

Anton Naychuk

Ph.D. in Political Science, Director of the Civil Diplomacy Fund, Ukraine

Victoria Namzhilova

PhD in Economics, Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Regional Economic Studies, Institute for Mongolian, Buddhist and Tibetan Studies of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Sam Nunn

Co-Chair, Nuclear Threat Initiative; and former U.S. Senator, United States

Dmitry Narkevsky

Independent journalist

Vitaly Naumkin

RIAC Vice-President, President of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Maria Nebolsina

Research Fellow of the Euro-Atlantic Security Center at MGIMO University

Aleksandr Nekipelov

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

Vladimir Nelidov

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

Leonid Nersisyan

Head of Defense Studies Department at Armenian Research & Development Institute and editor for New Defense Order. Strategy magazine, Thinker AGBU Project Lead

Sergei Nechaev

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Federal Republic of Germany, RIAC Member

Lyubov Nechayeva

Independent analyst

Oksana Nechyporenko

Coordinator at the Reanimation Package of Reforms initiative, Ukraine

Yevgeny Nikitenko

Former First Deputy Chief of the Military Science Department, Russian Armed Forces General Staff

Yulia Nikitina

PhD in Political Science, associate professor at the School of World Political Processes, research associate at the Center for Post-Soviet Studies, MGIMO University

Hovhannes Nikoghosyan

PhD, Adjunct Lecturer, American University of Armenia

Vyacheslav Nikonov

Member of the State Duma, the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, Dean of Public Administration Faculty of the Moscow State University, RIAC Member

George Niculescu

Head of Research, The European Geopolitical Forum

Stanislav Nikulin

PhD in Philosophy, Film critic

Irina Novikova

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

John Nomikos

Director of the Research Institute for European and American Studies based in Athens, Greece

Elena Norkina

LLM Public International Law — International Environmental and Energy Law, NRU HSE

Julien Nocetti

Research Fellow at the French Institute of International Relations (IFRI)

Eugenia Obichkina

Doctor of History, Professor at MGIMO-University

Armen Oganesyan

Editor-in-Chief of "International Affairs" journal

Ovanes Oganyan

Moscow State Institute for International Relations

Volkan Ozdemir

Director of EPPEN Institute & Instructor at Department of Eurasian Studies, Middle East Technical University, Ankara

Sergey Oznobishchev

PhD in History, Head of IMEMO RAN Department, Professor of MGIMO University

Andrey Okara

PhD in Law, Political Scientist

Igor Okunev

Director, Center for Spatial Analysis in International Relations, MGIMO University

Vladimir Olenchenko

PhD in Law, Senior Research Fellow, IMEMO RAN

Olga Oliker

Program Director for Europe and Central Asia, International Crisis Group

Yury Osipov

Full Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Elena Ostrovskaya

Doctor of Sociology, Professor of the Sociology Faculty of St. Petersburg State University

Efim Ostrovsky

President of the The Piatigorsky Foundation, RIAC Member

Dmitry Ofitserov-Belsky

Ph.D in History, Senior Research Fellow, IMEMO RAN

Andrey Pavlov

Doctor of History, Assistant Professor at St. Petersburg State University

Egor Pak

Senior Lecturer, Department of International Economic Relations and External Economic Links, MGIMO University

Pavel Palazhchenko

Head of international contacts and press relations service of the Gorbachev Foundation. Foreign affairs expert and journalist

Nikita Panin

Expert for the Center for African Studies, HSE University

Lev Panin

Independent Analyst

Ivan Panichkin

Lecturer, Department of Legal Regulation of Fuel and Energy at the International Institute of Energy Policy and Diplomacy, MGIMO University

Alexander Panov

Professor at the Diplomacy Department at MGIMO Russia, Chief Research Fellow of the Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Victoria Panova

PhD in History, Vice Rector, HSE University, RIAC Member

Oleg Paramonov

Ph.D. in History; Senior Research Fellow, Center for East Asian and Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Studies, MGIMO University under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation; Associate Professor, School of International Affairs, Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, Higher School of Economics National Research University

Daniil Parenkov

Deputy Head, Department of Political Theory, MGIMO University

Dattesh Parulekar

Assistant Professor of International Relations and Strategic Studies, at the Department of International Relations, Goa University

Tatyana Parkhalina

Deputy Director, Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences, of the Russian Academy of Sciences, President of the Association for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation

Pavel Parshin

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

Nikolay Pakhomov

Political Analyst

Alexandra Perminova

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

Larisa Permyakova

PhD in Political Science, Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Volker Perthes

Ph.D. from Duisburg University, Senior Advisor of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs / Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP)

Dmitry Peskov

Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of Russia, Press Secretary of the President

Andrey Petrov

Deputy Director General at ‘Vestnik Kavkaza’, Information & Analytics Agency

Vladimir Petrovsky

Dr. of Political Science, Chief Research Fellow at the Centre for Russian–Chinese Relations Studies and Forecasting of the Institute of Far
Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Efim Pivovar

RAS Full Member, RIAC member

Alexander Pivovarenko

Ph.D. in History, Senior Research Associate, RAS Institute of Slavonic Studies

Yury Pivovarov

RAS Full Member, RIAC Member

Alexander Pilyasov

Dr. of Geography, Professor of Economics, Head of the Center for Northern and Arctic Economies

Natalia Piskulova

Dr. of Economics, Professor of International Economic Relations and Foreign Economic Relations MGIMO University

Nikolay Plotnikov

Dr. of Political Science, Director Research Center, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences; Professor at the Faculty of World Politics, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Dmitry Poletaev

Ph.D. in Economics, Director at the Center for Migration Studies; Lead Researcher, Institute of Economic Forecasting of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Darya Polosina

MSc, MGIMO University, field of study International Economic Law

Oleg Popadyuk

PhD in Law, MGIMO University

Veniamin Popov

Russian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, RIAC Member

Alexey Portansky

Professor of World Economy and International Affairs Department at Higher School of Economics, Leading Researcher at RAS Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO)

Olga Potyomkina

Doctor of Political Science, Head of the Regional Research Department of Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences

Denis Primakov

PhD in Law, Associate Transparency International-R lawyer, Assistant Professor of the Moscow State Law Academy

Evgeniy Primakov

Head of Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States Affairs, Compatriots Living Abroad, and International Humanitarian Cooperation (Rossotrudnichestvo), RIAC Member

Stanislav Pritchin

PhD in History, Research fellow of the RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

Maria Ptashkina

Head of Trade Policy Department of Russian APEC Study Centre at RANEPA

Uma Purushothaman

Associate Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation

Alexey Pushkov

Chairman of the Federation Council Commission on Information Policy and Media Relations, RIAC Member

Nikita Pyzhikov

Head, Center for Economic Integration, IDIP RFTA, Research Fellow, Institute for International Economics and Finance, RFTA

Andrey Pyatakov

PhD (Political Science), Senior Research Fellow, RAS Institute for Latin American Studies

Anastasia Pyatachkova

Deputy Head, CCEIS Asia-Pacific Department, National Research University Higher School of Economics

Sergey Razov

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation in the Italian Republic and in the Republic of San Marino

Dmitry Razumovsky

Ph.D. in Economics, RIAC Member

Roman Reinhardt

Ph.D in Economics, Associate Professor at the Diplomacy Department of MGIMO under the MFA of Russia

Sudha Ramachandran

Independent journalist and researcher

Grigory Rapota

RF state counselor, 1st class, RIAC Member

Daniil Rastegaev

RIAC Publishing Editor

Sergey Rastoltsev

PhD Student, RAS Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO RAN)

G A V Reddy

Lt. General, Strategic Advisor, Synergia Foundation

Dmitry Reutov

Post-graduate student in the Russia in the Asia-Pacific Region: Politics, Economy, Security international educational program at the Far Eastern State University

Nigyar Rzayeva

Lecturer and Deputy Head of the Department of Diplomacy and Foreign Policy at Baku Slavic University, Employee at the Department of International Politics and Foreign Policy, Institute for Political Science, University of Cologne

Karsten Riise

Master of Science (Econ) from Copenhagen Business School, University degree in Spanish Culture and Languages from University of Copenhagen

Malcolm Rifkind

Former Defense Secretary and Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom

Sergey Rogov

Academic Director of the RAS Institute of US and Canada, RAS Full Member

Evgeny Rogovsky

PhD, Economics. Center for Military and Industrial Policy Institute for US and Canadian Studies

Dmitry Rosenthal

PhD in History, Director of the Institute of Latin America of the Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Member

Andrés Rozental

Former Deputy Foreign Minister of Mexico and Founding President of the Mexican Council on Foreign Relations - COMEXI

Julia Roknifard

Ph.D. in History, Assistant Professor at the University of Nottingham (Malaysia)

Sergey Romanenko

PhD in History, Political Studies Center of the RAS Institute of Economics

Irina Romanova

Candidate of History, Assistant Professor, Oriental Political Studies Dept. Institute for African and Asian Studies Moscow State University

Tatiana Romanova

PhD in Political Studies, Associate Professor at European Studies Department, Saint Petersburg State University

Natalia Romashkina

Ph.D. in Political Science, Head of the Informational Security Problems Department of the Center for International Security at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor, Corresponding Member of the Academy of Military Science of the Russian Federation

Adam Daniel Rotfeld

Co-chairman of Polish-Russian Group on Difficult Matters, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland

Yury Rubinsky

Doctor of History, Professor of the Higher School of Economics

Valeriya Ruzakova

Leading analyst, Center for Energy and Digital Economy Stretegic Research, MGIMO University. Founder, President of Honour, MGIMO Arctic Student Research Club

Javier Rupérez

Ambassador, President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (1996-1998)

Tatiana Rusakova

Ph.D. in Political Science, expert at the Centre for Crisis Society Studies (Centero)

Roger Rufe

Vice Admiral, United States Coast Guard (retired)

Vakhtang Rcheulishvili

Political scientist, Chairman of the Georgian Economic Forum

Arkady Ryabichenko

PhD in history

Sergey Ryabkov

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

Alexander Saburov

Head of International Projects Section, Postgraduate of World History Department of M.V. Lomonosov Northern (Arctic) Federal University

Alexander Savelyev

Doctor of Political Science, Chief research fellow, Center of International Security, Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Russian Academy of Sciences (IMEMO)

Larisa Saveleva Dovgal

Member of the PIR Center Community, independent analyst

Viktor Sadovnichy

Rector of the Lomonosov Moscow State University, RAS Vice-President, RAS Full Member

Ilshat Saetov

PhD in Political Science, research fellow at Centre for the Study of Middle East of Institute of Oriental Studies of RAS

Vladimir Sazhin

PhD in History, RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

Kira Sazonova

PhD in Political Science and Law, Associate Professor, Presidential Academy of National Economy (RANEPA)

Tobby Simon

President, Synergia Foundation

Alexei Salikov

Ph.D., Kant Institute Deputy Director, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

Viktoriya Samsonova

Ph.D. in Economics, Leading Research Fellow, Center for Korean Studies, Institute of Far Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Sergei Samuilov

D.Sc., Head of the Center for U.S. Foreign Policy Studies, U.S. and Canadian Studies Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences

Mehdi Sanaei

Ph.D. in Political Science, Founder, The Institute for Iran-Eurasia Studies (IRAS), Associate Professor at University of Tehran; Iranian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary; Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran

Marina Sapronova

Д.и.н., Doctor of History, Professor, Department of Oriental Studies, MGIMO University

Alexei Sarabyev

PhD in History, Chief of Research and Publishing Dept, RAS Oriental Studies Institute

Pankaj Saran

Former Deputy National Security Advisor and Former Ambassador of the Republic of India to the Russian Federation

Konstantin Sarkisov

PhD in History, Visiting Researcher at Hosai University, Honorable Professor of Yamanashi University (Japan)

Hasan Selim Özertem

Researcher at Ankara based think-tank International Strategic Research Organization (USAK)

Kirill Semenov

Political scientist, independent expert on Middle East conflicts, Islamic movements and terrorist organizations

Viktor Sergeev

Doctor of History, Professor of the Comparative Political Studies Department at MGIMO-University

Alexandra Sergeyeva

PhD, Institute of Asian and African Studies

Alexandr Sergunin

PhD in Political Science, Professor at the Faculty of International Relations, Saint Petersburg State University

Sergey Serebrov

Ph.D. in Economics, Senior Researcher at the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Eugenia Serova

Director of Rural Infrastructure and Agro-Industry Division at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN, Professor

Ikram Sehgal

Vice Chairman - Foreign Relations, Karachi Council on Foreign Relations

Maxim Sigachev

PhD of Political Science, Research Fellow at Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), Russian Academy of Sciences

Tatyana Sidorina

Doctor of Philosophy, Professor at the Higher School of Economics

Nickolay Silaev

PhD in History, Caucasus Problems and Regional Security Center at the MGIMO University

Shakthi De Silva

Temporary – Assistant Lecturer, Department of International Relations, University of Colombo (Sri Lanka)

Robin Seemangal

Journalist for The New York Observer, Founder/Director of Deepcor Media Former communications director of the Himalayan Consensus - an NGO based in Kathmandu, Nepal

Aida Simoniya

PhD in Economics, Leading Researcher at Center for South-East Asia, Australia and Oceania Studies, RAS Institute for Oriental Studies

Margarita Simonyan

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

Tridivesh Singh Maini

Senior Research Associate with The Jindal Schoolof International Affairs, Sonepat

Archil Sikharulidze

Founder of the SIKHA Foundation, lecturer at the Tbilisi State University

Alexander Skakov

PhD in History, Working Group Coordinator at the Central Eurasia Research Center, RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

Pavel Skakun

Independent researcher, lecturer at Dostoevsky Omsk State University

Mikhail Skovoronskikh

MA, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University

Mikhail Skovoronskikh

MA, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University

Nikita Smagin

Independent expert

Maria Smekalova

PhD Candidate, Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies, RAS

Xenia Smertina

Head of Program Education and Science, Deaf-blind Support Fund So-edinenie (Connection)

Vadim Smirnov

Director of the Baltic Studies Institute of I. Kant Baltic Federal University

Larisa Smirnova

PhD in Political Science, Senior researcher at CEMI RAS

Leonid Smorgunov

D.Sc. (Philosophy), professor, Head of the Chair of Political Governance, Political Science Department, St. Petersburg State University

Anita Soboleva

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

Sergei Sokolov

Independent expert, specializes in EU, US and WTO affairs

Yulia Sokolshchik

Independent Analyst

Lev Sokolshchik

Ph.D. in History, Associate Professor, School of International Regional Studies, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies (CCEIS), Research Fellow, International Laboratory on World Order Studies and the New Regionalism at the Higher School of Economics National Research University (HSE University)

Eduard Solovyov

PhD in Political Science, Head of the Theory of Politics Section IMEMO RAN

Evgeny Soroko

PhD in Physics and Mathematics, Senior Research Associate, Institute of Demography at the Higher School of Economics

Ilona Stadnik

Lecturer at the Saint Petersburg State University

Natalia Stapran

Director of the Department for Multilateral Economic Cooperation and Special Projects, Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Ivan Starodubtsev

Ph.D. in Engineering Science, Postdoctoral researcher, International Institute of Energy Policy and Diplomacy, MGIMO University

Aleksei Starostin

PhD in History, Theology Department, Urals State Mining University

Pyotr Stegniy

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Alexey Stepanov

Research Fellow, Center for Military and Political Research, RAS Institute of U.S. and Canadian Studies

Ekaterina Stepanova

Lead researcher and head of the Peace and Conflict Studies Unit at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) in Moscow

Andreas Stergiou

Assistant Professor at the University of Crete, Department of Political Science

Dmitry Stefanovich

Research Fellow at the Center for International Security, Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences, co-founder of the Vatfor project

Pablo Stefanoni

Editor-in-Chief, Nueva Sociedad, Argentina

Svetoslav Stoyanov

Expert on Development Assistace

Elena Stoyanova

Analyst, IDIP RFTA

Daria Strelavina

Master of Asian and African Studies, Socio-Economic and Political Development of Modern Asia programme, Higher School of Economics; Project Manager, Alliance Media Strategy

Dmitry Streltsov

Doctor of History, Head of the Department of Oriental Studies of the MGIMO University

Mikhail Strikhanov

Editor-in-Chief of the Nuclear Physics and Engineering Journal, RIAC Member

Yelena Stoudneva

Observer, International Affairs monthly

Igor Subbotin

Commentator for International Affairs under the Editor-in-Chief of Nezavisimaya Gazeta

Vladimir Sudarev

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

Andrei Suzdaltsev

Deputy Dean of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, Higher School of Economics

Malik Ayub Sumbal

Geopolitical Analyst and Commentator

Viktor Sumsky

Doctor of History, Leading Expert in the MGIMO ASEAN Centre

Elena Suponina

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

Nikolay Surkov

Doctor of Political Science, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for the Middle East Studies, Institute of World Economy and International Relations under the Russian Academy of Sciences

Svetlana Suslina

Doctor of Economics, RAS Institute of Far Eastern Studies

Dmitriy Suslov

Deputy Director of the Centre for comprehensive European and international studies, Deputy Director of research programs at the Council on foreign and defense policy. Member of the RIAC.

Vyacheslav Sutyrin

PhD in Political Science, Director of the Centre for Science Diplomacy and Advanced Academic Initiatives, Institute for International Studies of MGIMO University

Vyacheslav Sukhnev

Member of the Union of Journalists and the Union of Russian Writers, Senior Editor, Strategy of Russia magazine

Nikolay Soukhov

PhD in History, Researcher at the RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

Konstantin Sukhoverkhov

Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council, Graduate Student at the MGIMO University

Maxim Suchkov

PhD in Political Science, Director of the Center for Advanced American Studies at MGIMO University

Andrey Sushentsov

PhD in Political Science, Department of International Issues Applied Analysis of the MGIMO University

Wang Xiaoquan

Head of the Research Division, Institute of Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Secretary General of the All-China Association for the Study of Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia; Deputy Director of the “One Belt and One Road” Research Centre at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Alexander Tabachnik

PhD candidate at Haifa University’s School of Political Sciences

Patrick Taran

President, Global Migration Policy Associates

Dmitry Tarasenko

Research Fellow, Russian Institute of Strategic Studies (RISS)

Elena Telegina

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

Ivan Timofeev

PhD in Political Science, Director General of the Russian International Affairs Council, RIAC member

Boris Titov

Special representative of the President of the Russian Federation for Relations with International Organisations, RIAC Member

Igor Titov

Adviser to the Russian Trade Mission to Finland

Vladimir Titov

First Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Manuel A.J. Teehankee

Research Fellow at the Center for Trade and Economic Integration at the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, former Philippine Ambassador to the WTO in Geneva

Valery Tishkov

Scientific Director of the RAS Miklukho-Maklai Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, RAS Full Member

Stanislav Tkachenko

Doctor of Economics, Ph.D. in History, School of International Relations, Saint Petersburg State University

Natalia Toganova

PhD in Economics, Independent expert

Andrey Todorov

Ph.D. in Law, Research Fellow at Department for Disarmament and Conflict Resolution Studies, the Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Alexey Tokarev

PhD in Political Science, Senior Research Fellow at Center for Global Issues, Institute for International Studies of MGIMO–University

Georgy Toloraya

Doctor of Economics, Professor of Oriental Studies, Director of the Asian strategy center at the Institute of Economics of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Anastasia Tolstukhina

PhD in Political Science, Program Manager and Website Editor at the Russian International Affairs Council

Igor Tomberg

Doctor of Economics, Director of the Centre for Energy and Transport of the RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

Yulia Tomilova

MGIMO University

Ilya Topchiy

Independent Expert

Pyotr Topychkanov

Ph.D. in History, Head of Section for New Challenges in South and Southeast Asia at the Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO RAS)

Anatoly Torkunov

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

Gleb Toropchin

Ph.D. in History, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Faculty of Humanities, Novosibirsk State Technical University; Associate Professor, Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Tyumen

Andrey Tochin

Director, Institute for the Development of Integration Processes at the Russian Foreign Trade Academy of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation; Senior Research Fellow, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration

Natalia Travkina

PhD in Politics, Center for Domestic Policy Research at RAS Institute for the U.S. and Canadian Studies

Sam Tranum

Freelance reporter based in Kolkata

Dmitri Trenin

Academic Supervisor of the Institute of World Military Economy and Strategy at HSE University, RIAC member

Olga Troitskaya

Ph.D., Professor of World Politics Department, Moscow State University

Mikhail Troitskiy

PhD in Political Science, Associate Professor, MGIMO University

Konstantin Truevczev

Senior Research Fellow, Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Vadim Trukhachev

Professor of Foreign Regions Chair at Russian State University for Humanities, Expert on history of CEE countries

Dmitry Tulupov

Faculty of International Relations of St. Petersburg State University

Anastasia Turkina

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

Christina Turyinskaya

PhD in History, Senior Researcher in the RAS Institute of African Studies

Alexander Tevdoy-Burmuli

Candidate of Political Sciences, European Integration Faculty, MGIMO-University

Kristian Wilson

Senior Associate, Bedell Cristin, Singapore

Olga Ulybina

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

Nandan Unnikrishnan

Senior Fellow and Vice President at the Observer Research Foundation

Vyacheslav Usov

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

Sergey Utkin

PhD in Political Science, Independent expert

Anton Utkin

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

Sergei Uyanaev

Ph.D., senior researcher, Russia – China Centre, RAS Far East Institute

Alexei Fadeyev

PhD in Economics, Head of the Production Support Department at Gazpromneft-Sakhalin

Giacomo Famigli

Master’s Student, MGIMO University, RIAC Intern

Irina Fedorova

PhD in History, Senior Fellow, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Alexander Fedorovsky

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), Head of Section of the Asia-Pacific Region Problems, IMEMO RAN

Mikhail Fedotov

Doctor of Sciences, Professor, Faculty of Law, HSE University, RIAC Member

Денис Федутинов

Главный редактор профильного издания «Беспилотная авиация»

Dmitry Feldman

Doctor of Political Science, Professor, World Politics Department MGIMO-University

Alexei Fenenko

Doctor in Political Science, PhD in History, Professor at School of world politics of MSU

Vasily Filippov

Doctor of Historical Sciences, Leading Researcher at the Institute of Africa of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Vladimir Filippov

President of Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia, RIAC member.

Liudmila Filippova

Senior Researcher at the ‘Russia, China, World’ Centre of the Institute of China and Modern Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IKSA RAS), Head of the Commission for the Creation and Activities of Regional Branches, Member of the Central Board of the Russian-Chinese Friendship Society (ORKD)

Joseph Fitsanakis

Associate Professor of Political Science in the Intelligence and National Security Studies program at Coastal Carolina University

Sabine Fischer

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

Yulia Florinskaya

PhD in Geography, senior researcher, Institute of Demography HSE

Lyudmila Fokina

RAS Institute of Economics

Alexandra Fokina

BA in International Relations, Higher School of Economics

Isabelle François

Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council

Andrey Frolov

Ph.D. in History

Andrei Fursenko

Aide to the President of the Russian Federation

Liu Fenghua

Ph.D., Research Fellow, Head of the Russian Foreign Policy Research Department at the Institute of Russian, Eastern European and Central Asian Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Habibe Ozdal

Researcher at Ankara based think-tank International Strategic Research Organization (USAK)

Liu Haifang

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

Irina Khaleeva

Doctor of pedagogical Sciences, professor, member of the Russian Academy of Education, RIAC member

Henry Huntington

Senior Officer, International Arctic The Pew Charitable Trusts

Elena Kharitonova

Associate Professor, Senior researcher at the Сenter for civilizational and regional studies of the Institute of Africa of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Member of the Executive Committee of the World Federation of Scientists (WSWF)

Maxim Kharkevich

PhD in Political Science, associate professor at the Department of World Politics, MGIMO University

Kerim Has

Ph.D in Political Science, Expert on International Affairs and Russia–Turkey Relations

Anita Khasanova

MA, MGIMO University

Daria Khaspekova

Editor in chief, PIRC

Alexander Chvorostov

Dr., Head of the Center for Comparative Eurasia Studies and Surveys, CEASS-Vienna

Sergei Khenkin

Doctor of History, Professor, Comparative Political Studies Department of the MGIMO University

Efim Khesin

Doctor of Economics, Chief Research Fellow of IMEMO, RAS

Joost Hiltermann

MENA Program Director, International Crisis Group (ICG)

Alexey Khlebnikov

Middle East expert and Russian foreign policy analyst, MSc Global Public Policy, Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota. PhD candidate.

Luiza Khlebnikova

Ph.D. in History, Associate Professor at the Department of Jewish Studies, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University; Researcher at the Department for the Study of Israel and Jewish Communities of the RAS

Anton Khlopkov

Director of Center for Energy and Security Studies, chief editor of Yaderny Club magazine, member of Scientific Council of the Security Council, RIAC member

Maria Khodinskaya-Golenischeva

Doctor of Historical Sciences. Deputy Director of the Foreign Policy Planning Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. Professor at the Department of Applied International Analysis, MGIMO University

Nikolay Kholodkov

Doctor of Economics, Leading Research Fellow, RAS Institute for Latin American Studies

Zhao Huasheng

Professor, Fudan University, Beijing Club for International Dialogue, Senior Fellow

Nataliya Zaiser

Chair of the Board, Africa Business Initiative

Yuri Tsarik

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

Anton Tsvetov

Expert in the Foreign Policy and Security division at the Center for Strategic Research

Wolfgang Zellner

PhD. in Political Science, Deputy Director of the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg (IFSH) and Head of the IFSH’s Centre
for OSCE Research (CORE)

Anna Tsibulina

PhD in Economics, Associate Professor at MGIMO-University Integration Processes Department

Andrey Tsygankov

University of San-Francisco, Professor of International Relations

Samuel Charap

Ph.D in Political Science, Foreign Affairs Analyst

Ravi Chaudhry

Founder and Chairman, CeNext Consulting Group, New Delhi

Mitat Celikpala

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

Aleksandr Chepurin

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Eugenia Chervonnaya

MGIMO-University

Pavel Cherkashin

Expert at the Laboratory of Asia-Pacific International Institutions and Multilateral Cooperation, Far Eastern State University School of Regional and International Studies, Сorrespondent of the Regional News Agency Data

Vessela Tcherneva

Director of Wider Europe Programme, European Council on Foreign Relations

Stanislav Chernyavsky

Director of the Center for Post-Soviet Studies at the MGIMO University, 2nd Class Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Doctor of History

Sun Zhuangzhi

Director of the Institute of Russian, Eastern European and Central Asian Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Vice President of the Council on Strategic Interaction between China and Russia at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Vladimir Chizhov

Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the European Union

Ekaterina Chimiris

Ph.D. in Political Science, Head, Center for Social and Political Research, Institute for the Development of Integration Processes, Russian Foreign Trade Academy, Associate Professor, Financial University

Valery Chistyakov

Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, Saint-Petersburg State Mining University

Alexei Chikhachev

PhD in Political Science, Senior Teacher at the Department of European Studies, Saint Petersburg State University

Aleksandr Chubaryan

Academic Director of the RAS Institute of General History, RAS Full Member, RIAC Member

Sergey Chugrov

Dr. of Social Sciences, Professor of the International Journalism Department at MGIMO University, Editor-in-Chief of Polis. Political Research, Russia’s leading journal on political science, senior researcher at IMEMO RAN

Marina Chumakova

Doctor of Political Science, Director, Head of the Center for Political Studies, RAS Institute of Latin America

Yevgeny Chuprunov

Scientific director of the Lobachevsky Sate University of Nizhny Novgorod

Cornel Ciurea

Political scientist, Moldova

Lei Shaohua

Ph. D., Special Research Fellow of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies of Peking University

Alexander Shaparov

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

Pavel Sharikov

Ph.D. in Political Science, Director of the Applied Research Center and Russian Academy of Sciences Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies, Assistant Professor of the Faculty of World Politics at Lomonosov Moscow State University

Nadezhda Shvedova

Doctor of Political Sciences, Head of Center of Socio-Political Studies ISKRAN

Vitaly Shvydko

Ph.D. in Economics, Head of the Sector of Economics and Politics of Japan

Mikhail Shvydkoy

Special Representative of Russian President on International Cultural Cooperation. Ambassador-at-Large. RIAC member.

Dmitry Shevchenko

Doctor of Economics, Head of Marketing and Advertising Chair at Russian State University for Humanities, Honorary Member of the Guild of Marketers

Sergey Shein

Ph.D., Research Fellow:Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs at the Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies (CCEIS), HSE University

Maxim Shepovalenko

Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies

Dmitry Scheftelowitsch

Research fellow at TU Dortmund University, specialist in autonomous decision-making systems

Vasily Shikin

Ph.D. in History

Beom Shik Shin

Ph.D. in Political Science, Professor, Dept. of International Relations, Seoul National University

Alexander Shinkarenko

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

Lyubov Shishelina

Doctor of History, Head of Vishegrad centre at the RAS Institute of Europe, Head of Central and Eastern Europe studies department

Pavel Shlykov

Assistant Professor, Department of Near and Middle Eastern History, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Moscow State University

Valeriy Shliamin

Doctor of Economics, Advisor to the Rector of PetrSU

Tatyana Shmeleva

Expert at the Middle East Institute

Aleksandr Shokhin

President of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs

Vladimir Shubin

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher at the RAS Institute of African Studies

Vinay Shukla

New Delhi based Journalist & Eurasia Analyst

Alexandre Shumilin

PhD in Politics, Head of the Centre for Analysis of Middle East Conflicts, the RAS Institute for US and Canadian Studies

Natan Shuminov

Postgraduate student, MGIMO University

Mahmood Shoori

Ph.D. in International Relations, Deputy Director of Institute for Iran & Eurasia Studies (IRAS), Lecturer at University of Tehran

Anna Shcherbakova

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

Alina Shcherbakova

Ph.D in Economics, Associate Professor at the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs of the Higher School of Economics; research fellow at the RAS Institute of Latin American Studies; research fellow at the Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia

Rachel Ellehuus

Deputy director and senior fellow with the Europe Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

Mark Entin

Doctor of Science, Professor, Head of the Department of European law, MGIMO-University

Ekaterina Entina

Dr. of Political Sciences, Head of Black Sea and Mediterranean Studies Centre, Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences; Professor, Higher School of Economics National Research University (HSE University)

Eric Ehrmann

Brazilian columnist and RIAC blogger

Emre Erşen

Associate Professor, Political Science and International Relations, Marmara University (Turkey)

Igor Yurgens

Director of the MGIMO Centre for Sustainable Development, RIAC Member

Igor Yushkov

Professor at Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, and leading expert at the National Energy Security Fund

Alina Yablokova

MA in International Studies and Diplomacy, Political Risk Analyst

Alla Yazkova

Doctor of History, Professor, Head of the Black Sea-Mediterranean Research Center of the RAS Instute of Europe

David Iakobachvili

President of the Russian-American Council of Business Cooperation

Alexander Yakovenko

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

Alexander Yakovlev

Dr. of History, Chief Researcher at the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the RAS

Nailya Yakovleva

PhD in History, Senior Research Fellow at Political Studies Centre, Institute of Latin America, RAS

Yulia Yakusheva

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

Yulia Yamineva

PhD University of Cambridge, Researcher, Centre for Energy, Climate and Environmental Law, University of Eastern Finland; consultant at the International Institute for Sustainable Development

Elena Yatsenko

Ph.D. (Engineering), President Eurasia Heritage Foundation

Poll conducted

  1. In your opinion, what are the US long-term goals for Russia?
    U.S. wants to establish partnership relations with Russia on condition that it meets the U.S. requirements  
     33 (31%)
    U.S. wants to deter Russia’s military and political activity  
     30 (28%)
    U.S. wants to dissolve Russia  
     24 (22%)
    U.S. wants to establish alliance relations with Russia under the US conditions to rival China  
     21 (19%)
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