Authors

Dr. of Political Science, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Problems of Transformation of Political Systems and Cultures, World Politics Department at Lomonosov Moscow State University

PhD in Political Science, Associate Professor, Political Science Department, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation

Expert at the Institute of the Middle East, graduate of International Institute of Energy Policy and Diplomacy at MGIMO

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

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

Professor, Doctor of Economics, Head of the Economics Department at the CIS Institute, Leading Research Fellow at the RAS Institute of Economics

Associate Professor of International Relations (ret.), University of Cyprus

Doctor of Political Science, Leading researcher, RAS Institute of Philosophy

Correspondent, Expert magazine, Research fellow of the RAS U.S. and Canadian Studies Institute

Director of the Institute of Asia and Africa of MSU , RIAC Member

Independent expert

Editor-in-Chief of the Arsenal of the Fatherland magazine

Professor of Higher Education at the University of Oxford, Director of the ESRC/OFSRE Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE), Editor-in-Chief of Higher Education, Professorial Associate of the Melbourne Centre for Study of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne, and Lead Researcher at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

Master of Economics, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), Program jointly with UIBE (Beijing): “Russian and China: Economic and Political Trends in Eurasia”

Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor

Doctor of History, Professor, Ural Federal University

Member of the Scientific Council, Chairman of the Religion, Society, and Security Program at the Carnegie Moscow Center

Doctor of Economics, Professor of Foreign Relations Department at St. Petersburg State University

Dr. of Philosophy, Senior Research Fellow RAS INION, Professor, MGIMO University, Professor, Higher School of Economics, Honorary President, Russian Political Science Association

Independent Analyst

Ph.D in History, Leading Research Fellow at MGIMO University, Editor-in-Chief of International Analytics Magazine

Department of Strategic Management of Fuel and Energy Sector, Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas

Ph.D. in History, Research Associate, Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD in Political Science

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Center for South-East Asia, Australia and Oceania Studies, RAS Institute for Oriental Studies

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the People's Republic of China, RIAC Member