Authors

Former senior Australian diplomat

Ph.D in History, Professor of MGIMO University, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

RIAC President (2011–2026), Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (1998–2004), Russian Academy of Sciences Corresponding Member, RIAC Member

Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

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

Doctor of History, Professor at MGIMO-University

Doctor of Economics, Director of the Centre for Energy and Transport of the RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

Doctor of Economics, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for US and Canadian Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences

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

Ph.D. candidate in Slavic and Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University

Head of Department, Deputy Director of the General Office of Eastern-European Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey

Research Fellow at The Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D, Vice-Rector for HR, Associate professor at the Department of Diplomacy, MGIMO University

Russian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, RIAC Member, RIAC Vice-President

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

Doctor of Economy, Professor, Professor, Member of the Global Migration Policy Associates

Independent Expert

Doctor of Political Science, Ph.D. in History, Deputy Director for Science of the IOS RAS, RIAC Member

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

Head of Defense Studies Department at Armenian Research & Development Institute and editor for New Defense Order. Strategy magazine, Thinker AGBU Project Lead

President of Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, RIAC member

Research Fellow at the Center for Strategic Studies (Azerbaijan)

New Delhi based Journalist & Eurasia Analyst

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

Program Assistant at the Russian International Affairs Council

Director of Wider Europe Programme, European Council on Foreign Relations