Authors

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

Ph.D. (Military Sciences), Col. Gen. (Ret.), Research Professor, Advanced National Security Studies Center, Expert Institute, Higher School of Economics National Research University, Moscow

PhD, Post-doctoral Research Fellow WZB Berlin Social Science Center, Research Fellow Cambridge Central Asia Forum

Ph.D. in Political Science, Director of the Applied Research Center and Russian Academy of Sciences Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies, Assistant Professor of the Faculty of World Politics at Lomonosov Moscow State University

Ph.D. in Political Science, Head of the Center for Global Studies & International Relations at the Diplomatic Academy under the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Rector of the Lomonosov Moscow State University, RAS Vice-President, RAS Full Member

Director of Foreign Policy at the Centre for European Reform

Doctor of Political Science, Professor, Head of the Global Political Processes Department of the MGIMO University

Rector of the Far Eastern Federal University (2012–2016), RIAC member.

Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights

Deputy Director of the Centre for comprehensive European and international studies, Deputy Director of research programs at the Council on foreign and defense policy. Member of the RIAC.

Ph.D. in History, Head of Section for New Challenges in South and Southeast Asia at the Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO RAS)

First Deputy Head of the Russian Federal Migration Service

MA, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University

Director of Wider Europe Programme, European Council on Foreign Relations

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ph.D. in Legal Sciences, Deputy Head of the Department of International Law at MGIMO University

Expert at the ASEAN Center, Institute for International Studies, MGIMO University, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia

Editor-in-Chief of Russia Today TV channel, editor-in-chief of international news agency "Rossiya Segodnya"

PhD. in History, Research Fellow, Center for Middle East Studies at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS)

PhD in Economics

Deputy General Director, Head of the Analytical Department Information Analysis Centre, Moscow State University

Dual Master in International Public Management (Sciences Po Paris) and International Security (MGIMO)

Ph.D. in diplomatic history, Deputy Director and Senior Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program

Dr., Head of the Center for Comparative Eurasia Studies and Surveys, CEASS-Vienna

Ph.D., Associate Director of and Research Professor at the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES), Elliott School of International Affairs, The George Washington University

Postdoctoral Researcher, Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding of the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, RIAC Visiting Research Fellow

Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies