Authors

President of the The Piatigorsky Foundation, RIAC Member

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

Independent journalist

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

Editor-in Chief, Russkiy Mir Journal

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

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

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

President, Synergia Foundation

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

PhD in Law, PhD of Potsdam University

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

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

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

North European and Baltic Studies Center at the MGIMO University

Political Analyst

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

Junior Research Fellow, Center of the Indo-Pacific Region, Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IMEMO)

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

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

Ph.D. in History, Associate Professor at the Department of Jewish Studies, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University; Head of Research Group of Studying the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at Institute of Oriental Studies RAS

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

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