Authors

PhD (History), Research Fellow at School of International Affairs, Higher School of Economics, Moscow

Director, Institute for the Development of Integration Processes at the Russian Foreign Trade Academy of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation; Senior Research Fellow, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration

Journalist, Sinologist

PhD in Philosophy, Adviser to the director of the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies, Asia and Middle East specialist

Dr. of History, Chief Researcher at the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the RAS

Doctor of Economics, Chief Research Fellow of IMEMO, RAS

Lecturer, Department of Asian and African Studies, MGIMO University, Research Fellow, Center for Japanese Studies, RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

Assistant Professor at the University of Crete, Department of Political Science

PIR Center Director

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

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

Geneva School of Diplomacy and International Relations

Analyst on Russia and its Middle East policy, MPhil International Relations, University of Cambridge

Program Director for Europe and Central Asia, International Crisis Group

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

Doctor of History, Professor at MGIMO-University

Doctor of History, Professor of the Oriental Studies Department of the MGIMO University

Graduate Student at MGIMO Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, Bachelor of Foreign Regional Studies (East Asia Regional Studies: Economy and Politics (China)), Institute of Business Studies, RANEPA under the President of the Russian Federation

Member of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Professor, Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, HSE University, RIAC member

Expert for the Center for African Studies, HSE University

Director of International and Geo-Political Studies at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat), affiliated associate professor of economics at George Mason University, USA

Expert, Ukrainian Institute of Politics

Ph.D. in Political Science, Deputy Director General of the Russian International Affairs Council