Authors

PhD in History, Associate Professor at Chernyshevsky National Research Saratov State University

Academic Director, SKOLKOVO Institute for Emerging Market Studies

Commentator for International Affairs under the Editor-in-Chief of Nezavisimaya Gazeta

Former First Deputy Chief of the Military Science Department, Russian Armed Forces General Staff

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of International Research, MGIMO University, RIAC Member

Member of the State Duma, the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, Dean of Public Administration Faculty of the Moscow State University, RIAC Member

Head of the Mongolia Unit, Senior Researcher at the Korea and Mongolia Division, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D. in History, Research affiliate at the Ukrainian Research Institute (Harvard University) and the Center for International and European Studies, Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Deputy Director, Analytical Center Observo, French-Russian Chamber of Commerce

Ph.D. in Political Science, expert at the Centre for Crisis Society Studies (Centero)

Geneva School of Diplomacy and International Relations

Senior Research Fellow at the Center for the Study of Vietnam and ASEAN, Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of RAS

Research Fellow, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Federal Republic of Germany, RIAC Member

Senior Lecturer at the Department of Social Sciences, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Research Fellow at the Center of Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of Russia, Press Secretary of the President

Ph.D. in Philology, Rector of Moscow State Linguistic University, RIAC Member

Associate Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation

Director of the Baltic Studies Institute of I. Kant Baltic Federal University

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

Ph.D. in History, Research Fellow at the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, Valdai Discussion Club Expert

Ph. D., Special Research Fellow of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies of Peking University

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

PhD, Applied Policy Research Institute of Armenia (APRI Armenia)

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Senior Lecturer, Saint Petersburg State Electrotechnical University “LETI” and Saint Petersburg State University

Senior Research Associate with The Jindal Schoolof International Affairs, Sonepat