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Political scientist, independent expert on Middle East conflicts, Islamic movements and terrorist organizations

Doctor of Economics, Advisor to the Rector of PetrSU

Independent expert, specializes in EU, US and WTO affairs

Ph.D. in History, Associate Professor, School of International Regional Studies, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies (CCEIS), Research Fellow, International Laboratory on World Order Studies and the New Regionalism at the Higher School of Economics National Research University (HSE University)

Expert on Development Assistace

Ph.D., Senior Research Fellow, NatStrat, India

Lead researcher and head of the Peace and Conflict Studies Unit at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) in Moscow

Ph.D. in Political Science, Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

PhD in Political Science, Professor at the Faculty of International Relations, Saint Petersburg State University

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

Vice Chairman - Foreign Relations, Karachi Council on Foreign Relations

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

PhD in Politics, Head of the Centre for Analysis of Middle East Conflicts, the RAS Institute for US and Canadian Studies

President, Synergia Foundation

Head of Program Education and Science, Deaf-blind Support Fund So-edinenie (Connection)

Journalist for The New York Observer, Founder/Director of Deepcor Media Former communications director of the Himalayan Consensus - an NGO based in Kathmandu, Nepal

Ph. D., Special Research Fellow of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies of Peking University

Master of Asian and African Studies, Socio-Economic and Political Development of Modern Asia programme, Higher School of Economics; Project Manager, Alliance Media Strategy

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

PhD in Political Science, Head of the Theory of Politics Section IMEMO RAN

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

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

PhD in History, Caucasus Problems and Regional Security Center at the MGIMO University

President of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs

D.Sc. (politics), Professor, North (Arctic) Federal University

Lecturer at the Saint Petersburg State University

Doctor of Political Science, Deputy Director of the RAS Institute of Latin America

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

PhD in Political Science, Department of International Issues Applied Analysis of the MGIMO University

Deputy Director of the Center for African Studies, HSE University

Observer, International Affairs monthly

D.Sc. (Philosophy), professor, Head of the Chair of Political Governance, Political Science Department, St. Petersburg State University

PhD in History, Working Group Coordinator at the Central Eurasia Research Center, RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

PhD in Political Science

Research fellow at TU Dortmund University, specialist in autonomous decision-making systems