Authors

PhD in Economics, Head of the innovative direction at the Interdepartmental Analytical Center

Doctor of Economics, Professor, Head of the Population Studies Chair at Economy Department, Moscow State University

Research Fellow at the Center for International Security, Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences, co-founder of the Vatfor project

RIAC Publishing Editor

PhD in Political Science and Law, Associate Professor, Presidential Academy of National Economy (RANEPA)

President of the U.S./Middle East Project (USMEP), Director of the Middle East and North Africa Programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations (2012–2016)

Ph.D. in Economics, Director at the Center for Migration Studies; Lead Researcher, Institute of Economic Forecasting of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Rector of Moscow State Institute of International Relations (University) of the RF MFA, RAS Full Member, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

PhD in Political Science, associate professor at the Department of World Politics, MGIMO University

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

Doctor of Political Science, professor at Saint Petersburg state university

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

Director of Research and Information Centre, Intergovernmental Water Management Coordination Commission for Central Asia, Member of the World Water Council

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

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

PhD in Economics, Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Regional Economic Studies, Institute for Mongolian, Buddhist and Tibetan Studies of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Program Director for Europe and Central Asia, International Crisis Group

PhD in Technical Sciences, retired Major General

PhD in Political Science, Andrew Derbenev is a Researcher at the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, and an Associate Professor in Moscow State Pedagogical University

Assistant Professor of International Relations and Strategic Studies, at the Department of International Relations, Goa University

MGIMO University

Ph.D. in Economics, School of Management, St. Petersburg State University