Authors

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the People's Republic of China, RIAC Member

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

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

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

Member of the Scientific Council, Chairman of the Religion, Society, and Security Program at the Carnegie Moscow Center

PhD in Political Science

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor at the Department of World Politics, Faculty of International Relations, Director of World Politics Master’s Program, St. Petersburg State University

PhD in Economics, Associate Professor of the World Economy Department, Academic Head of the World Economy Undergraduate Program at HSE- University

Ph.D. in History, Scientific Advisor of The Evgeny Primakov Center for International Cooperation, Senior Research Fellow, Center for the Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies RAS

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

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

Ph.D. in Political Science; Professor, Institute of International Relations at Pyatigorsk State University

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

Independent expert

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

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

Ph.D in History, Leading Research Fellow at MGIMO University, Editor-in-Chief of International Analytics Magazine

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

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

Doctor of History, Professor, Ural Federal University

PhD, Applied Policy Research Institute of Armenia (APRI Armenia)

Political Scientist

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

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

Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor

University of Birmingham

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