Authors

Political Scientist, Coordinator of Kyrgyzstan Analytical Club

International Security expert, MA in International Affairs, Sciences Po Paris/MGIMO

Ph.D. (History), Leading Research Fellow, Institute for Advanced Strategic Studies, HSE University

Ph.D., Senior Researcher, Institute of Current International Affairs, Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Foreign Affairs Ministry

Diplomat, scholar in Asian Studies (at the Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University) and an expert on Thailand

Economics Expert at Discussion Society Liberal Cub, Belarus

Senior Analyst of the Centre for Crisis Society Studies, Expert of the Middle East Institute, RIAC

Graduate Student at MGIMO Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, Bachelor of Foreign Regional Studies (East Asia Regional Studies: Economy and Politics (China)), Institute of Business Studies, RANEPA under the President of the Russian Federation

Head of Research, Center for Situational Analysis at RAS, member of the Directorate of IMEMO RAS, RAS Full Member, RIAC Member

Chairman of PIR Center, Lieutenant-General (retired), RIAC Vice-president

Director of Foreign Policy at the Centre for European Reform

Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

Research Fellow of the Department for European Political Studies at Institute of World Economy and International Relations

PhD in Political Science, Director of the EU Political Integration Center at RAS Institute for European Studies

Deputy Director, TV Channel "Rossiya" (RTR), Manager and Presenter of “News on Saturday with Sergey Brilev”

Institute of Oriental Studies

Chairman of the Board of the Foundation for Development and Support of the Valdai Discussion Club

Doctor of Philosophy, Professor of the Philosophy Department of the Pacific State University

Ph.D. in Political Science, Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

Editor-in Chief, Russkiy Mir Journal

Independent Analyst

Senior Fellow at East-West Institute, Brussels

Expert, Ukrainian Institute of Politics

Doctor of physics and mathematics, Expert in scientific research commercialization

Junior Research Fellow, Center for Post-Soviet Studies, Institute of Economics, Russian Academy of Sciences

Doctor of Political Science, Director of the Centre for Comparative Governance Studies, Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies, HSE Campus in St. Petersburg

Chief Research Fellow of the RAS Vavilov Institute of Natural History and Technology, RAS Corresponding Member, RIAC Member

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

Doctor of Sciences in History, Chair of the Department of Contemporary History of Russia at the Institute of History and Archives of RSUH, RIAC Member

Doctor of History, Deputy Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

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

Doctor of Political Science, Professor, Head of the World Politics Department of the Higher School of Economics