Authors

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

Independent Analyst

Rector of the National Research University-Higher School of Economics

PhD in Philosophy, Film critic

PhD in Political Science, Head of the Theory of Politics Section IMEMO RAN

Ph.D. (Hist.), Senior Research Fellow, Research Fellow of the Center for Development and Security Studies, Faculty of World Politics, Moscow State University

Deputy Director General at ‘Vestnik Kavkaza’, Information & Analytics Agency

PhD University of Cambridge, Researcher, Centre for Energy, Climate and Environmental Law, University of Eastern Finland; consultant at the International Institute for Sustainable Development

Political Analyst

PhD Professor, University of the Philippines (ret.), Executive Director, Center for Political and Democratic Reforms, Inc.

Ph. D., Special Research Fellow of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies of Peking University

Research Assistant at the Center of Arab and Islamic Studies under the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD in Political Science

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

RIAC member

Doctor of International Law, Professor, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, Deputy Director General of the International Information Agency "Rossiya Segodnya", RIAC Member

Dr. of Social Sciences, Professor of the International Journalism Department at MGIMO University, Editor-in-Chief of Polis. Political Research, Russia’s leading journal on political science, senior researcher at IMEMO RAN

Academic Director of the RAS Institute of General History, RAS Full Member, RIAC Member

Candidate of Political Sciences, Founder and Director of the National Energy Security Fund, First Vice-Rector for External Communications of the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Head of the Research Division, Institute of Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Secretary General of the All-China Association for the Study of Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia; Deputy Director of the “One Belt and One Road” Research Centre at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Editor-in-Chief, Nueva Sociedad, Argentina

Commodore, Former Strategy Director in the British Embassy in Afghanistan, author of Strategy for Action: Using Force Wisely in the 21st Century

Andrei Kelin, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, RIAC Member

Independent expert

Doctor of History, Chief Researcher of the RAS Institute for European Studies

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

Head of the Program (Tech Policy) at the Russian International Affairs Council