Authors

Research Analyst at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat)

Counselor of the National Committee for BRICS Research

Lecturer and Deputy Head of the Department of Diplomacy and Foreign Policy at Baku Slavic University, Employee at the Department of International Politics and Foreign Policy, Institute for Political Science, University of Cologne

Director of the Center for Post-Soviet Studies at the MGIMO University, 2nd Class Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Doctor of History

PhD in international relations, contributor to the German Caucasus Watch

Chairman of the Board of the Foundation for Development and Support of the Valdai Discussion Club

PhD in Political Science, associate professor at the School of World Political Processes, research associate at the Center for Post-Soviet Studies, MGIMO University

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

Ph.D, Head of Chair, Cybernetics and Information Security Department, Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (National Research Nuclear University)

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Ph.D. in Economics, RIAC Member

PhD in Political Science, Associate Professor at IR Department, Far Eastern Federal University, Adjunct Professor at the North-East Asia Research Center, Jilin University, China

Ph.D. in History; Senior Lecturer, Department of Theory and History of International Relations, Research Fellow, Center for Applied Analysis of Global Transformations, Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN)

PhD in Political Science, Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Political scientist, independent expert on Middle East conflicts, Islamic movements and terrorist organizations

Doctor of History, Professor of the Oriental Studies Department of the MGIMO University

Master’s Student, MGIMO University, RIAC Intern

Ph.D. in Economics, Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for the Arctic and Northern economies under the Council for the Study of Productive Forces (SOPS),Associate Professor of Philosophy, Economics and Social Sciences Department of the Moscow State University of Geodesy and Cartography

Ph.D. in History, RIAC Deputy Director of Programs

Deputy Director for Research at the Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences (IE RAS), Head of the Country Studies Department, Head of the Center for German Studies at the Institute of European Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Member

PHD Scholar, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

Junior Research Fellow, Center for Post-Soviet Studies, Institute of Economics, Russian Academy of Sciences

Doctor of History, RAS Institute for Far Eastern Studies, member of the Governing Board of the UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning

Independent Expert

Former Defense Secretary and Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom