Authors

PhD in Political Science, Senior Teacher at the Department of European Studies, Saint Petersburg State University

Ph.D., Senior Researcher, Institute of Current International Affairs, Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Foreign Affairs Ministry

Researcher at the Center for Central Asian Studies of the Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Lecturer in the School of International Affairs at the Higher School of Economics

Doctor in History, Professor at Department of world politics, Tomsk State University

PhD in Geography, senior researcher, Institute of Demography HSE

Ph.D. in Political Science, President World Security Network, Berlin

Lecturer at the Saint Petersburg State University

Head of the "Africa in the Focus of Russian Interests" Programme at the MGIMO University

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

Secretary-General of the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies

Head of International Cooperation Department, Integration Development Department, EEC

Independent Analyst

MA, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

Chairman of the Executive Committee — Executive Chairman of the CIS

RAS Full Member, RIAC member

Former Defense Secretary and Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom

Retired Vice-admiral

Political Scientist

PhD in Technical Sciences, Founder, Aigents, Architect, SingularityNET

Former Chairman of Indian Space Research Organization

Deputy Head, CCEIS Asia-Pacific Department, National Research University Higher School of Economics

Doctor of Economics, Director of the Centre for Energy and Transport of the RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

PhD in Political Science, Associate Professor, MGIMO University

RIAC Member

Research Fellow at the Center for the Middle East Studies, IMEMO RAS

Assistant Professor, Department of Near and Middle Eastern History, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Moscow State University

Ph.D. in History; Senior Research Fellow and Head of the Center for Tropical African Studies, Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Expert in the Foreign Policy and Security division at the Center for Strategic Research