Authors

Program Assistant at the Russian International Affairs Council

Member of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Research Fellow, Group of Regional Political Problems of the East and South, Center for Development and Modernization Studies, Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Founder and Head of CREON Group, RIAC Member

Director of Center for Energy and Security Studies, chief editor of Yaderny Club magazine, member of Scientific Council of the Security Council, RIAC member

PhD in Economics, Head of the innovative direction at the Interdepartmental Analytical Center

PhD in History, Leading Researcher at RAS Institute for Latin American Studies

Member of the Council of the Federation, RIAC member

PhD, Head of Center for Russian-African Relations Studies at RAS Institute for African Studies

PhD in Political Science, Research Centre for International and Regional Politics (Saint-Petersburg), Project Coordinator, Euroacademy (Tallinn), professor

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

President, Society of Caucasian Studies Experts

Associate Professor, Senior researcher at the Сenter for civilizational and regional studies of the Institute of Africa of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Member of the Executive Committee of the World Federation of Scientists (WSWF)

Retired Vice-admiral

Foreign Policy Analyst, Assistant researcher, Forum on Geopolitics, University of Cambridge

Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Witology, Chairman of Board of League of Independent Experts

PhD in Political Science, associate professor at the Department of World Politics, MGIMO University

PhD in Philology, Associate professor, Mass-Media Institute, Russian State University for the Humanities

Ph.D. in Political Science, Deputy Director of the Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies (CCEIS), HSE University

Third Secretary, Press-Attaché of the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Ankara

Doctor of History, Professor at MGIMO-University

President and CEO of Vegarus Group Africa Business Initiative, Eurasian Economic Cooperation organization, CEO of the International Coordination Council of Alumni (INCORVUZ) FISU Executive Committee Member

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

Academic Director, SKOLKOVO Institute for Emerging Market Studies

Researcher at Energy and Security Center, Eugeny Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations

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

President of Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, RIAC member

PhD in History, Expert on Latin America expert

Leading Specialist, Marketing Department, Rosatom Energy Projects

Assistant Professor, Department of International Relations, Bilkent University (Turkey)

Chief economist at the VEB.RF, RIAC member.

Ph.D. in Political Science, Head of the Center for Global Studies & International Relations at the Diplomatic Academy under the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Doctor of History, Head of the Afghanistan Sector of the RAS Institute of Oriental Studies, Professor