Authors

Political Scientist, Coordinator of Kyrgyzstan Analytical Club

Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Social, Political and Economic Problems in the 20th Century, Institute of World History, Russian Academy of Sciences

Academic Director, SKOLKOVO Institute for Emerging Market Studies

Political Scientist

Ph.D. in Political Sciences, Research Fellow, Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies (CCEIS) at the Higher School of Economics National Research University (HSE University)

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

Doctor of History, Professor of the Comparative Political Studies Department at MGIMO-University

Senior Research Associate with The Jindal Schoolof International Affairs, Sonepat

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

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

Economist and International Relations Analyst, Project Coordinator of “Greece, Cyprus, Egypt & Israel: Opportunities and Restrictions of a Mediterranean Coalition” at the International Relations Institute of Athens

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, Saint-Petersburg State Mining University

Doctor of Economics, Director of the Center for Human Demography and Ecology, RAS Institute of Economic Forecasting

Ph.D in History, Leading Research Fellow at MGIMO University, Editor-in-Chief of International Analytics Magazine

Freelance reporter based in Kolkata

Ph.D. in Economic Sciences, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for International Economics and Finance, IDIP RFTA; Senior Research Fellow, Russian Center for APEC Studies, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA)

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

Co-Chair, Nuclear Threat Initiative; and former U.S. Senator, United States

Research Fellow, MSU Institute of Information Security Issues

PhD in Philosophy, Expert in Latin languages

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Ph.D in History, Senior Research Fellow, IMEMO RAN

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

D.Sc. in Law, Professor, Department of European Law, MGIMO University; Professor, Institute of Management and Territorial Development, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

Faculty of International Relations of St. Petersburg State University

Consultant at PIR-Center for Policy Studies

RIAC President (2011–2026), Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (1998–2004), Russian Academy of Sciences Corresponding Member, RIAC Member