Authors

Chair of the Board, Africa Business Initiative

PhD in Economics, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Applied Economic Studies, Presidential Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration

PhD in History, Vice Rector, HSE University, RIAC Member

Director of the Centre for Cross-Sectoral Expertise “Third Rome”, RIAC Member

Senior research fellow, RAS Institute of Economic Forecasting

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

PhD in History, Associate Professor, Department of Post-Soviet Countries, Russian State University for the Humanities, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Post-Soviet and Interregional Studies

Ph.D., Kant Institute Deputy Director, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

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

Member of the State Duma, the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, Dean of Public Administration Faculty of the Moscow State University, RIAC Member

Economist and International Relations Analyst, Project Coordinator of “Greece, Cyprus, Egypt & Israel: Opportunities and Restrictions of a Mediterranean Coalition” at the International Relations Institute of Athens

PhD in international relations, contributor to the German Caucasus Watch

Post-Graduate Researcher at the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia Expert of the Institute for Contemporary International Studies

Master Student at MGIMO-University

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

Research fellow at the French Institute for International Relations (Paris, France)

Doctor of Philological Sciences, Director of the Institute of Far Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor at the Financial University, RIAC Member

Head of Digital and Innovations Research, Associate Professor of Business Practice, Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO

Senior Fellow at East-West Institute, Brussels

RIAC President (2011–2026), Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (1998–2004), Russian Academy of Sciences Corresponding Member, RIAC Member

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

HSE University Student

PhD in History, Senior Research Fellow at RAS IMEMO Sector for US Foreign and Domestic Policy

Head of the Center for International Security of IMEMO, RAS Full Member, RIAC member

Senior Expert, Center for Military and Political Studies, MGIMO MFA

Freelance reporter based in Kolkata

Director, Center for Spatial Analysis in International Relations, MGIMO University

Head of Department, Deputy Director of the General Office of Eastern-European Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey

PhD candidate at the School of Politics and International Relations, Cardiff University

Ph.D. in Political Science, Director of the Applied Research Center and Russian Academy of Sciences Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies, Assistant Professor of the Faculty of World Politics at Lomonosov Moscow State University

PhD in history, Department of Modern History and Socio-Political issues of Central and South Eastern European Countries, RAS Institute of Slavonic Studies

President of the Russian-American Council of Business Cooperation