Authors

Director of Research and Information Centre, Intergovernmental Water Management Coordination Commission for Central Asia, Member of the World Water Council

Dr. of Economics, Head of the Foreign Economy Policy Sector, RAS Institute of World Economy and International Relations

Director of the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IE RAS), RAS Corresponding Member, RIAC member

PhD. in History, Research Fellow, Center for Middle East Studies at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS)

Senior research fellow at MGIMO Institute for International Studies, Center for Euroasian Studies

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher at the RAS Institute of African Studies

PhD in Pedagogy, Head of Methodic Department at Russian National Library, Board Member of Russian Library Association

Ambassador of the Republic of Yemen to Russia

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

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

Founder and Head of CREON Group, RIAC Member

Program Director for Europe and Central Asia, International Crisis Group

Ph.D. in Political Science, Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

Ph.D. in History, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Faculty of Humanities, Novosibirsk State Technical University; Associate Professor, Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Tyumen

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

PhD in History, Leading Researcher, Department of Korea and Mongolia, RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

Founder and Chairman, CeNext Consulting Group, New Delhi

Independent journalist

PhD, Post-doctoral Research Fellow WZB Berlin Social Science Center, Research Fellow Cambridge Central Asia Forum

Ambassador (rtd), President, Munich Security Conference Foundation; and former State Secretary, German Federal Foreign Office, Germany

Ph.D. (Engineering), President Eurasia Heritage Foundation

Dr. of Economics, Head of the Sector of Economics of Science and Innovative Processes RAS Institute of World Economy and International Relations

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

Chairman of the Federation Council Commission on Information Policy and Media Relations, RIAC Member

PhD in Political Science, head of the post-Soviet countries’ economic development section at the Institute of Economics, RAS

RIAC Member

Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor

Independent Analyst

Political scientist, Moldova