Authors

Researcher, Junior Research Fellow at the Lomonosov Moscow State University, Senior Lecturer at Asian and African Studies from Moscow State University

President and CEO of Vegarus Group Africa Business Initiative, Eurasian Economic Cooperation organization, CEO of the International Coordination Council of Alumni (INCORVUZ) FISU Executive Committee Member

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Head of the Laboratory for International Trends in AI Development at HSE University

MA, MGIMO University

Founder and Chairman, CeNext Consulting Group, New Delhi

Junior Research Fellow, Center for Strategic Planning Studies, IMEMO

Ph.D in History, Assistant professor of the Chair of International Relations and Diplomacy at the Moscow Humanitarian University

PhD in Political Science, Senior Teacher at the Department of European Studies, Saint Petersburg State University

PhD in History, Director of the Institute of Latin America of the Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Member

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

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

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

Rector of the National Research University-Higher School of Economics

Editor-in-Chief of Russia in Global Affairs magazine, Chairman of the Presidium of the Council for Foreign and Defense Policy, RIAC Member.

Full Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Senior Fellow at East-West Institute, Brussels

Commodore, Former Strategy Director in the British Embassy in Afghanistan, author of Strategy for Action: Using Force Wisely in the 21st Century

PhD in Political Science, Senior Research Fellow at Center for Global Issues, Institute for International Studies of MGIMO–University

PhD in political science

PhD in History, Arab and Islamic Studies at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

MGIMO University

Independent journalist

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

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

Honorary President of the Institute for African Studies of the RAS, RAS Full Member, RIAC Member

Researcher at Ankara based think-tank International Strategic Research Organization (USAK)

Research Fellow of the Euro-Atlantic Security Center at MGIMO University

Senior Research Fellow, Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD in Law, Senior Research Fellow, IMEMO RAN