Authors

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

Former Defense Secretary and Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom

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

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

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

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

Lecturer at the Saint Petersburg State University

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

Doctor of Economics, Professor, Chief Research Fellow at the Center for World Politics and Strategic Analysis, Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS); Head of the Center for Russia’s Strategy in Asia, Institute of Economics of RAS

Ph.D. in Political Science, Head of the Asia and Eurasia Program at the Russian International Affairs Council

PhD in Economics

Independent analyst

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

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

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

Independent journalist and researcher

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Post-Graduate Researcher at the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia Expert of the Institute for Contemporary International Studies

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