Authors

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

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

Professor, Doctor of Economics, Head of the Economics Department at the CIS Institute, Leading Research Fellow at the RAS Institute of Economics

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Doctor of History, Professor, Ural Federal University

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

Chair of the Iran Section, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Associate Professor at the Department of World Economy, MGIMO University

Postgraduate at International and European Law Department, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

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

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

Doctor of Political Science, Deputy Director of the RAS Institute of Latin America

Dr. of Political Science, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Problems of Transformation of Political Systems and Cultures, World Politics Department at Lomonosov Moscow State University

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

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

PhD in Political Science; Associate Professor of the Department of Integration Processes, Senior Researcher at IMI MGIMO; Senior Researcher at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Doctor of Economics, Director of the Far East Institute's Vietnam-ASEAN Research Centre under Russia's Science Academy

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

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

PhD in Economics Vice Dean of International Journalism Department; Associate Professor, Department of the World Economy, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO University) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

PhD in History, Caucasus Problems and Regional Security Center at the MGIMO University

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

PhD in Technical Sciences, CEO of Digital Forensic Laboratory

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

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

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

Ph.D., Professor of Political Ideas and Institutions, Università degli Studi Guglielmo Marconi, Former British diplomat

Master of Economics, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), Program jointly with UIBE (Beijing): “Russian and China: Economic and Political Trends in Eurasia”

Ph.D. in History, Senior Researcher at the Department of Central and Eastern European Studies at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

Doctor of Political Science, Expert at the Institute of Oriental studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, and a Professor in the Department of Oriental Studies in the Russian State University for Humanities

PhD in History, Professor at Chair of Theory and History of International Relations, Boris Yeltsin Urals Federal University

Senior research fellow in the Institute of European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, Carleton University, Canada