Authors

Deputy Director for Research at the Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences (IE RAS), Head of the Country Studies Department, Head of the Center for German Studies at the Institute of European Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Member

PhD in History, Post-Soviet Studies Center at the MGIMO University

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

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

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

PhD in Political Science, EU and CE policy department of the Institute of European Studies at MGIMO University

Analyst on Russia and its Middle East policy, MPhil International Relations, University of Cambridge

Diplomat, scholar in Asian Studies (at the Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University) and an expert on Thailand

Senior Fellow, Energy, Investment and Connectivity, Gateway House: Indian Council on Global Relations

Expert, Ukrainian Institute of Politics

Doctor of History, RAS Institute for Far Eastern Studies, member of the Governing Board of the UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning

Director of Foreign Policy at the Centre for European Reform

Independent Analyst

Doctor of Political Science, Director of the Centre for Comparative Governance Studies, Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies, HSE Campus in St. Petersburg

Doctor of Political Science; Professor at the Russian Academy of Sciences; Program Director of the Valdai International Discussion Club;Professor, MGIMO University

Doctor of Philosophy, MGIMO Professor

Political Scientist, Coordinator of Kyrgyzstan Analytical Club

Ph.D. candidate in Slavic and Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University

MGIMO University

PhD in Political Science, Director of the EU Political Integration Center at RAS Institute for European Studies

Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

Doctor of History, Deputy Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Research Assistant, Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies (CCEIS) at the Higher School of Economics National Research University (HSE University)

Senior Analyst of the Centre for Crisis Society Studies, Expert of the Middle East Institute, RIAC

Doctor of History, Head of the Political and Military Research Unit at the RAS Institute of USA and Canada Studies

Graduate Student at MGIMO Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, Bachelor of Foreign Regional Studies (East Asia Regional Studies: Economy and Politics (China)), Institute of Business Studies, RANEPA under the President of the Russian Federation

PhD in History, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, Professor at the HSE University, RIAC Member

Doctor of Science, Programme Director of the Valdai Discussion Club; Academic supervisor of the Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies, HSE University, RIAC Member

Ph.D. in Technical Science, Senior Research Fellow, Center for International Security, IMEMO RAS

Research Fellow of the Department for European Political Studies at Institute of World Economy and International Relations

Independent Analysts, Energy consultant, eXelen srl

Junior Research Fellow, Center for Post-Soviet Studies, Institute of Economics, Russian Academy of Sciences

Chief Research Fellow of the RAS Vavilov Institute of Natural History and Technology, RAS Corresponding Member, RIAC Member

Associate Professor of Sociology & Social Policy, the University of Sydney