Authors

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

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

Research Analyst at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat)

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

PhD in Economics Vice Dean of International Journalism Department; Associate Professor, Department of the World Economy, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO University) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

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 of the Department of Integration Processes, Senior Researcher at IMI MGIMO; Senior Researcher at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences

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

Senior research fellow in the Institute of European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, Carleton University, Canada

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

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

Academic Supervisor of Social Sciences Department at Higher School of Economics, Professor, RIAC Member.

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, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

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

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

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

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

Doctor of Political Science, Expert at the Institute of Oriental studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, and a Professor in the Department of Oriental Studies in the Russian State University for Humanities

Senior Lecturer, Saint Petersburg State Electrotechnical University “LETI” and Saint 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

Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor at the Department of World Politics, Faculty of International Relations, Director of World Politics Master’s Program, St. Petersburg State University

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

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

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

PhD in Philosophy, Senior Lecturer at the HSE University

Independent expert

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

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

Postgraduate at International and European Law Department, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

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