Authors

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

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

PhD in history

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

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

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

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

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

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

LLM Public International Law — International Environmental and Energy Law

Humanitarian Affairs Adviser, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Regional Delegation in the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus

PhD in Political Science

President of the The Piatigorsky Foundation, RIAC Member

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

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

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

President, Global Migration Policy Associates

Doctor of Economics, Head of the Center for Strategic Analysis and Planning, Institute of Economics and Industrial Engineering within the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Member

Doctor of Philosophy, MGIMO Professor

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

Independent Expert

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

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