Authors

Chairman of the Board of the Foundation for Development and Support of the Valdai Discussion Club

Expert for the Center for African Studies, HSE University

Mexico's Ambassador to the Russian Federation

PhD in Political Science, Senior Research Fellow at Center for Global Issues, Institute for International Studies of MGIMO–University

Political scientist, Chairman of the Georgian Economic Forum

Ph.D. in International Relations, Deputy Director of Institute for Iran & Eurasia Studies (IRAS), Lecturer at University of Tehran

Master of Asian and African Studies, Socio-Economic and Political Development of Modern Asia programme, Higher School of Economics; Project Manager, Alliance Media Strategy

Senior Research Fellow at RAS Institute of Far Eastern Studies

RIAC Vice-President, President of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Dr. of Political Sciences, Head of Black Sea and Mediterranean Studies Centre, Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences; Professor, Higher School of Economics National Research University (HSE University)

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

Political scientist, Moldova

PHD Scholar, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

PhD in Hystory, Assistant Professor of MGIMO University

Postgraduate student, MGIMO University

Head of Department, Deputy Director of the General Office of Eastern-European Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey

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

Senior Lecturer, Department of International Economic Relations and External Economic Links, MGIMO University

Head of Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States Affairs, Compatriots Living Abroad, and International Humanitarian Cooperation (Rossotrudnichestvo), RIAC Member

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

Director of the Center for Post-Soviet Studies at the MGIMO University, 2nd Class Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Doctor of History

PhD in History, Leading Researcher at RAS Institute for African Studies

Doctor of Political Science, Professor, Head of the World Politics Department of the Higher School of Economics

Junior Research Fellow at the MGIMO Institute for International Studies (IMI MGIMO)

Professor at the Diplomacy Department at MGIMO Russia, Chief Research Fellow of the Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Independent Analyst

Senior Expert, Center for Military and Political Studies, MGIMO MFA