Authors

PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and Sociology of Political Processes, Faculty of Sociology, MSU

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

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

PhD in Geography, Head of the laboratory, RAS Institute of Economic Forecasting

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

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

Founder and Head of CREON Group, RIAC Member

Ph.D. in History, Research Associate, Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences

Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

Director of Wider Europe Programme, European Council on Foreign Relations

Ph.D. from Duisburg University, Senior Advisor of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs / Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP)

MENA Program Director, International Crisis Group (ICG)

Doctor of History, Professor of the Comparative Political Studies Department at MGIMO-University

Analyst, IDIP RFTA

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

Academic Director, SKOLKOVO Institute for Emerging Market Studies

Dr. of Economics, Professor of International Economic Relations and Foreign Economic Relations MGIMO University

PhD Candidate and Senior Lecturer at Novosibirsk State University (Russia) and Research Fellow at the Stanford US-Russia Forum (USA)

Research Fellow of the Euro-Atlantic Security Center at MGIMO University

Political Scientist, Coordinator of Kyrgyzstan Analytical Club

Doctor of Philosophy, Professor, RIAC Member

PhD in history

Doctor of Philosophy, Professor at the Higher School of Economics

Ph.D in History, Professor of MGIMO University, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

Researcher at the Center for Central Asian Studies of the Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Lecturer in the School of International Affairs at the Higher School of Economics

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