Authors

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

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

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

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

University of Birmingham

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

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

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

Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor

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

PhD in Political Science

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

Vice President of the Russian International Affairs Council, Executive Vice President of Etalon Group

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

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

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

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

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

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

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, Senior Lecturer in Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics, Deputy Director of the Princess Dashkova Russia Center, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

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

Ph.D. in History, Full State Counsellor of the Russian Federation, 3rd class; expert on Syria, Eastern Mediterranean and the Gulf, Associate Professor of the Department of International Business at the Financial University Under the Government of the Russian Federation

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

Independent Analyst

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

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

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

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

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