Authors

Ph.D. in History, Research Associate, Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences

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

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

Dr. of Political Science, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Problems of Transformation of Political Systems and Cultures, World Politics Department at Lomonosov Moscow State University

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

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

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

Senior Lecturer, Saint Petersburg State Electrotechnical University “LETI” and Saint Petersburg State University

Doctor of Economics, Director of the Far East Institute's Vietnam-ASEAN Research Centre under Russia's Science Academy

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

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

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

Professor, Doctor of Economics, Head of the Economics Department at the CIS Institute, Leading Research Fellow at the RAS Institute of Economics

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

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

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

Postgraduate at International and European Law Department, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

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

Ph.D, Vice-Rector for HR, Associate professor at the Department of Diplomacy, MGIMO University

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

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

Doctor of History, Professor, Ural Federal University

PhD in Technical Sciences, CEO of Digital Forensic Laboratory

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

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

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