Authors

Researcher at Energy and Security Center, Eugeny Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations

Ph.D. in History, Expert at the ASEAN Center, Institute for International Studies, MGIMO University, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia

Masters of Arts candidate at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies

PhD in Political Science, head of the post-Soviet countries’ economic development section at the Institute of Economics, RAS

MA, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University

Research Analyst, Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Programme The International Institute for Strategic Studies

RAS Full Member, RIAC member

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

Doctor of Political Sciences, Head of Center of Socio-Political Studies ISKRAN

Chair of the Board, Africa Business Initiative

Independent journalist

PhD in Philosophy, Senior Lecturer at the HSE University

PhD in history

Doctor of Historical Sciences, Leading Researcher at the Institute of Africa of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Doctor of Sociology, Professor of the Sociology Faculty of St. Petersburg State University

Founder and Head of CREON Group, RIAC Member

Former Ambassador of the Republic of India to the Russian Federation

Independent Analyst

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

PhD Student, RAS Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO RAN)

PhD in Geography, senior researcher, Institute of Demography HSE

Employee at the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Cairo, Central Staff of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation in the 2000s, currently works in the oil and gas industry

Political scientist, Chairman of the Georgian Economic Forum

PhD in History, Head of IMEMO RAN Department, Professor of MGIMO University

Head of the Research Division, Institute of Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Secretary General of the All-China Association for the Study of Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia; Deputy Director of the “One Belt and One Road” Research Centre at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Deputy Director General at ‘Vestnik Kavkaza’, Information & Analytics Agency

Professor, Fudan University, Beijing Club for International Dialogue, Senior Expert

MGIMO-University

Ph.D., Professor of Political Ideas and Institutions, Università degli Studi Guglielmo Marconi, Former British diplomat