Authors

Chief of Moldova Department, Institute of CIS Countries

Doctor of History, Professor, Dean of Foreign Relations Department at St. Petersburg State University

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

Research Fellow of the Department for European Political Studies at Institute of World Economy and International Relations

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

PhD in History, RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

Deputy General Director, Head of the Analytical Department Information Analysis Centre, Moscow State University

Independent Expert

Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia

Master of Asian and African Studies, Socio-Economic and Political Development of Modern Asia programme, Higher School of Economics; Project Manager, Alliance Media Strategy

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

President of the Russian International Affairs Council

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

Political commentator, researcher and expert on Middle East affairs. President of the Moscow-based International Middle Eastern Studies Club (IMESClub)

Research Fellow at the Center for Trade and Economic Integration at the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, former Philippine Ambassador to the WTO in Geneva

Graduate Student at MGIMO Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, Bachelor of Foreign Regional Studies (East Asia Regional Studies: Economy and Politics (China)), Institute of Business Studies, RANEPA under the President of the Russian Federation

Doctor of Economics, Director of the Centre for Energy and Transport of the RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

Dr. of Political Science, Chief Research Fellow at the Centre for Russian–Chinese Relations Studies and Forecasting of the Institute of Far
Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD in History, Head of the Korea and Mongolia Department, RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

President of World Russian Press Foundation (WARP Foundation), professor, RIAC member

PhD (Political Science), Senior Research Fellow, RAS Institute for Latin American Studies

Expert for the Center for African Studies, HSE University

Doctor of History, Professor at MGIMO-University

Ph.D., Associate Professor, Deputy Head of the Department of Political Science at the Higher School of Economics National Research University Campus in St. Petersburg, Assistant at the Graduate School of Management, St. Petersburg State University