Authors

Ph.D. in History, Full State Counsellor of the Russian Federation, 3rd class; expert on Syria, Eastern Mediterranean and the Gulf, Associate Professor of the Department of International Business at the Financial University Under the Government of the Russian Federation

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

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

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

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

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

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

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

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

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

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

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

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

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

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

Independent expert

Independent Analyst

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

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

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

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

PhD in Philosophy, Senior Lecturer at the HSE University

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

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

Political Scientist

PhD in Technical Sciences, CEO of Digital Forensic Laboratory

PhD in Political Science

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

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

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

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