Authors

Director of the Center for Post-Soviet Studies at the MGIMO University, 2nd Class Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Doctor of History

President of the U.S./Middle East Project (USMEP), Director of the Middle East and North Africa Programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations (2012–2016)

Ph.D. in Political Science, Deputy Director of the Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies (CCEIS), HSE University

PhD in Political Science, Director of the EU Political Integration Center at RAS Institute for European Studies

PhD in Geography, Head of the laboratory, RAS Institute of Economic Forecasting

Head of the Research Division, Institute of Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Secretary General of the All-China Association for the Study of Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia; Deputy Director of the “One Belt and One Road” Research Centre at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Chair of the Board, Africa Business Initiative

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

Research fellow at the French Institute for International Relations (Paris, France)

Assistant Professor at the Odintsovo branch, MGIMO University

Independent Expert

PhD Candidate and Senior Lecturer at Novosibirsk State University (Russia) and Research Fellow at the Stanford US-Russia Forum (USA)

Senior Fellow at East-West Institute, Brussels

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

Professor of International Politics, Tufts University

Research Fellow at the Sino-Russian Research Center for the Digital Economy at Lomonosov Moscow State University

Senior Associate, Bedell Cristin, Singapore

PhD in Political Science, Head of the Center for Regional Studies at RAS Institute for the U.S. and Canadian Studies

Deputy Director of the Center for African Studies, HSE University

Research Consultant, Chintan Research Foundation, New Delhi, Senior Research Fellow & PhD Candidate, Centre for Russian and Central Asian Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Independent expert

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

Director, HSE Institute for Educational Studies

Doctor of History, Professor of the Comparative Political Studies Department at MGIMO-University

PhD in History, expert at the Institute of Strategic Estimates and Analysis, Assistant Professor at the Higher School of Economics

PhD in Political Science

PhD, Foundation Fellow in the Australian Studies Institute at Australian National University

Senior research fellow at MGIMO Institute for International Studies, Center for Euroasian Studies

PhD in History, Visiting Researcher at Hosai University, Honorable Professor of Yamanashi University (Japan)

RIAC member

President, Society of Caucasian Studies Experts