Authors

Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee for Foreign Affairs of Georgia, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia, former Chairman of the National Security Council of Georgia

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

Research Fellow of the Euro-Atlantic Security Center at MGIMO University

PhD in Pedagogy, Head of Methodic Department at Russian National Library, Board Member of Russian Library Association

Director of Research and Information Centre, Intergovernmental Water Management Coordination Commission for Central Asia, Member of the World Water Council

PhD in Political Science and Law, Associate Professor, Presidential Academy of National Economy (RANEPA)

Editor-in Chief, Russkiy Mir Journal

PhD in Technical Sciences, retired Major General

President of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Visiting Lecturer at the HSE University, RANEPA University and MGIMO University

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

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

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

Doctor of Sciences in Economics, Professor, Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Academic Director of the Institute of Economics and Industrial Engineering within the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Member

Ph.D. in Political Science; Senior Research Fellow and Head of the Center for Sociological and Political Studies, Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D. researcher, Faculty of Economics, University of Belgrade

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

Doctor of Historical Sciences. Deputy Director of the Foreign Policy Planning Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. Professor at the Department of Applied International Analysis, MGIMO University

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

MA, MGIMO University

Ph.D. in Political Science and Associate Professor and Distinguished Researcher at the Tsinghua University Technology Innovation Research Centre, and Executive Secretary of the Sino-Russian Research Center for the Digital Economy at Lomonosov Moscow State University

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

Director of the Moscow School of Economics at the Lomonosov Moscow State University, RAS Full Member

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

Ph.D. in Political Science, Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

Ph.D. in Economics, Senior Researcher at the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences