Authors

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

Academic Supervisor of Social Sciences Department at Higher School of Economics, Professor, RIAC Member.

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

Doctor of Political Science, Leading researcher, RAS Institute of Philosophy

Master of Economics, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), Program jointly with UIBE (Beijing): “Russian and China: Economic and Political Trends in Eurasia”

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

Doctor of History, Professor, Ural Federal University

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

Center for South-East Asia, Australia and Oceania Studies, RAS Institute for Oriental Studies

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

Independent Analyst

Ph.D. in Political Science; Professor, Institute of International Relations at Pyatigorsk State University

Research Analyst at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat)

Ph.D. in History, Full State Counsellor of the Russian Federation, 3rd class; expert on Syria, Eastern Mediterranean and the Gulf, Associate Professor of the Department of International Business at the Financial University Under the Government of the Russian Federation

Director of the Institute of Asia and Africa of MSU , RIAC Member

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

PhD in Philosophy, Senior Lecturer at the HSE University

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

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

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

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

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

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

Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor

Ph.D. in History, Senior Researcher at the Department of Central and Eastern European Studies at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D. in diplomatic history, Deputy Director and Senior Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program

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

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

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

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

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

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

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council