Authors

Director of the Moscow School of Economics at the Lomonosov Moscow State University, RAS Full Member

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

Research Fellow at the Center for the Middle East Studies, IMEMO RAS

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

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

President, Chairman of the Board of Sberbank of Russia

Transitional – Senior Lecturer, Department of International Relations, University of Colombo (Sri Lanka)

Postgraduate at RAS Institute of World Economy and International Relations

Senior Officer, International Arctic The Pew Charitable Trusts

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

Program Coordinator and Website Editor at the Russian International Affairs Council

Ph.D. in Political Science, Deputy Director General of the Russian International Affairs Council

PhD in Political Science, Independent Analyst

Doctor of History, Professor at MGIMO-University

Associate Professor of Political Science in the Intelligence and National Security Studies program at Coastal Carolina University

Lecturer, Department of Legal Regulation of Fuel and Energy at the International Institute of Energy Policy and Diplomacy, MGIMO University

New Delhi based Journalist & Eurasia Analyst

PhD in Law, Senior Research Fellow, IMEMO RAN

MA, MGIMO University

Honorary President of the Institute for African Studies of the RAS, RAS Full Member, RIAC Member

Executive Director of Gorchakov Foundation for Public Diplomacy Support, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Professor, National University of Villa Maria, Argentina

Professor and Chair, Department of International and Comparative Politics American University of Paris

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

Head of Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States Affairs, Compatriots Living Abroad, and International Humanitarian Cooperation (Rossotrudnichestvo), RIAC Member

Doctor of History, Professor, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Eurasian Studies, Diplomatic Academy of Russian Foreign Ministry

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