Authors

PhD in Political Science, Associate Professor, Department of Asian and African Studies; Researcher, Center for Comprehensive Chinese Studies and Regional Projects at MGIMO University

PhD in Political Science, head of the post-Soviet countries’ economic development section at the Institute of Economics, RAS

Ph.D., Senior Fellow of The Institute of U.S. and Canadian Studies at Russian Academy of Sciences

Lecturer at the Department of Comparative Politics, PhD student at MGIMO University

PhD in History, Head of the European Union Studies Department, IMEMO RAN

Independent journalist

Independent Analyst

INSOR Director for International Development

Researcher at Energy and Security Center, Eugeny Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations

Ph.D. (History), Head of the Department of Ethno-Political Conflict at the Institute of Europe under the Russian Academy of Sciences

Rector of the National Research University-Higher School of Economics

Ph.D. in Political Science; Senior Research Fellow and Head of the Center for Sociological and Political Studies, Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

President, Society of Caucasian Studies Experts

PhD in Economics

Founder and Head of CREON Group, RIAC Member

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

PhD in Economics, Head of the innovative direction at the Interdepartmental Analytical Center

Andrei Kelin, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, RIAC Member

Third Secretary, Press-Attaché of the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Ankara

Ph.D. in History, Head of India Studies at the Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO, Senior Research Fellow at RAS Institute of Oriental Studies, RIAC Member

Doctor of History, Head of the Afghanistan Sector of the RAS Institute of Oriental Studies, Professor

Assistant Professor, Department of International Relations, Bilkent University (Turkey)

PhD in Political Science, Research Centre for International and Regional Politics (Saint-Petersburg), Project Coordinator, Euroacademy (Tallinn), professor

PhD in History, independent journalist

Ph.D. in Political studies, Middle East expert and Russian foreign policy analyst, MA Global Public Policy, Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota

Doctor of Historical Sciences. Deputy Director of the Foreign Policy Planning Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. Professor at the Department of Applied International Analysis, MGIMO 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

PhD in History, Head of Israel Department at RAS Institute for Oriental Studies

Director of Center for Energy and Security Studies, chief editor of Yaderny Club magazine, member of Scientific Council of the Security Council, RIAC member

Visiting Professor at Waseda University

PhD in History, Center for Asia-Pacific Studies, Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Leading Research Fellow

Deputy Director of the Institute of Far Eastern Studies (IFES) Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and Sociology of Political Processes, Faculty of Sociology, MSU