Authors

Professor of the Diplomacy Department of the MGIMO University, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

Junior Research Fellow, Center for Post-Soviet Studies, Institute of Economics, Russian Academy of Sciences

Former First Deputy Chief of the Military Science Department, Russian Armed Forces General Staff

Member of the State Duma, the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, Dean of Public Administration Faculty of the Moscow State University, RIAC Member

Independent analyst

Consultant at PIR-Center for Policy Studies

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD University of Cambridge, Researcher, Centre for Energy, Climate and Environmental Law, University of Eastern Finland; consultant at the International Institute for Sustainable Development

Chair of the Iran Section, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Associate Professor at the Department of World Economy, MGIMO University

Ph.D. (History), Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Editor in chief, PIRC

Senior Fellow at East-West Institute, Brussels

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

Research Fellow, Russian Institute of Strategic Studies (RISS)

Ph.D. in Technical Science, Senior Research Fellow, Center for International Security, IMEMO RAS

Senior researcher at the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, the Institute of Oriental Studies, RAS, associate professor at People’s Friendship University of Russia

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Ph.D. in History, Scientific Advisor of The Evgeny Primakov Center for International Cooperation, Senior Research Fellow, Center for the Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies RAS

PhD Candidate in International Relations, specialist in Russian and Eurasian Affairs, Turkey

PhD in Economics, Head of the Production Support Department at Gazpromneft-Sakhalin

Professor, Fudan University, Beijing Club for International Dialogue, Senior Expert

Ph.D. researcher, Faculty of Economics, University of Belgrade

Leading research worker with the Center for Global Problems at the Institute of International Studies, MGIMO University, professor of linguistic semantics at Moscow State Linguistic University

PhD in Engineering, Senior Research Fellow, Head of the CIS Institute Department of Eurasian Integration and SCO Development

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

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