Authors

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

Editor-in-Chief of Russia Today TV channel, editor-in-chief of international news agency "Rossiya Segodnya"

Ph.D. in diplomatic history, Deputy Director and Senior Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program

Deputy director of Department of implementation of Program for assisting compatriots in foreign residence in their voluntary resettlement to the Russian Federation of Ministry of Regional Development of Russia

Ambassador, President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (1996-1998)

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

PhD in History, Sector Head at RAS Institute of World Economy and International Relations

Head of the Department "Public-Private Partnership", Faculty "Higher School of Management", Financial University, RIAC Member

Ph.D in Political Science, Foreign Affairs Analyst

Doctor of Economics, Head of Department of Economic Research, RAS Institute for Oriental Studies

Independent analyst

Professor of Higher Education at the University of Oxford, Director of the ESRC/OFSRE Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE), Editor-in-Chief of Higher Education, Professorial Associate of the Melbourne Centre for Study of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne, and Lead Researcher at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow

Doctor of History, Professor at MGIMO-University

Ph.D. in History, Senior Research Fellow at European Political Studies Department, IMEMO RAN

PhD in History, Leading Researcher, Department of Korea and Mongolia, RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

Associate Professor of International Relations (ret.), University of Cyprus

Doctor of Philosophy, Professor at the Higher School of Economics

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Ph.D. in Political Science, Head of the Informational Security Problems Department of the Center for International Security at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor, Corresponding Member of the Academy of Military Science of the Russian Federation

Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Dr.Sc. (Econ.), Professor, Director of the RAS Institute for African Studies, RIAC Member

President of the Urals Federal University named after the First Russian President B.N. Yeltsyn

Ambassador, Senior fellow and distinguished chair in Diplomacy and Security at the RAND Corporation

Department of International Relations and Foreign Policy of Russia, MGIMO-University

PhD in Economics, Leading Research Associate at the RAS Institute for Latin American Studies

Ph.D. in Political Science, Founder, The Institute for Iran-Eurasia Studies (IRAS), Associate Professor at University of Tehran; Iranian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary; Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran