Authors

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

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

PhD in History, Professor at Chair of Theory and History of International Relations, Boris Yeltsin Urals Federal University

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

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

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

University of Birmingham

PhD in Political Science

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the People's Republic of China, RIAC Member

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

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

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

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

Political Scientist

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

Ph.D, Head of Chair, Cybernetics and Information Security Department, Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (National Research Nuclear University)

Independent Analyst

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

Associate Professor of International Relations (ret.), University of Cyprus

Doctor of Political Science, Deputy Director of the RAS Institute of Latin America

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

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

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

PhD in Political Science; Associate Professor of the Department of Integration Processes, Senior Researcher at IMI MGIMO; Senior Researcher at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences

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

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

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

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

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

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

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

Independent expert

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

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