Authors

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

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

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

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

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor

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

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D. in History, Senior Researcher at the Department of Central and Eastern European Studies at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D, Head of Chair, Cybernetics and Information Security Department, Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (National Research Nuclear University)

Independent Analyst

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

PhD in Political Science

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

Ph.D. in Political Science, Head of the Asia and Eurasia Program at the Russian International Affairs Council

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

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

Independent Analyst

Ph.D. in Political Science; Professor, Institute of International Relations at Pyatigorsk State University

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

Doctor of Economics, Director of the Far East Institute's Vietnam-ASEAN Research Centre under Russia's Science Academy

Independent expert

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

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

Political Scientist

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

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

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

University of Birmingham

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

PhD in Economics, Associate Professor of the World Economy Department, Academic Head of the World Economy Undergraduate Program at HSE- University