Authors

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

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

Ph.D., retired transdisciplinary consultant who writes on technology, power, global risks and future systems

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

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

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

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

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

PhD in Political Science

Political Scientist

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

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

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

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

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

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

Independent Analyst

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

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

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

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

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

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

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

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

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

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

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

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

PhD in Philosophy, Senior Lecturer at the HSE University