Authors

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

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

Independent expert

President of the International Foreign Policy Association, Chairman of the Global Council of Foreign Ministers of Foreign Affairs, President of the Alumni Association of MGIMO-University; Viktor Blazheev — Rector of the Kutafin Moscow State Law Academy, RIAC Member

Junior Research Fellow at the Center for International Security, Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations

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

Honorary President of the Institute for African Studies of the RAS, RAS Full Member, RIAC Member

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

Deputy Director for Research at the Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences (IE RAS), Head of the Country Studies Department, Head of the Center for German Studies at the Institute of European Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Member

PhD in Economics

Head of international contacts and press relations service of the Gorbachev Foundation. Foreign affairs expert and journalist

Expert at the Laboratory of Asia-Pacific International Institutions and Multilateral Cooperation, Far Eastern State University School of Regional and International Studies, Сorrespondent of the Regional News Agency Data

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues

Political scientist, Chairman of the Georgian Economic Forum

Director of the Centre for Cross-Sectoral Expertise “Third Rome”, RIAC Member

Rector of the Lomonosov Moscow State University, RAS Vice-President, RAS Full Member

Professor at Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, and leading expert at the National Energy Security Fund

Director of the MGIMO Centre for Sustainable Development, RIAC Member

Ph.D, heads the Eastern Europe and Eurasia Research Division at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) in Berlin

MA student, National Research University – Higher School of Economics

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

Doctor of History, Professor, Dean of Foreign Relations Department at St. Petersburg State University

President of Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, RIAC member

Head of International Cooperation Department, Integration Development Department, EEC