Authors

Director of the Baltic Studies Institute of I. Kant Baltic Federal University

Ph.D., Leading Expert, Military-Political Studies Center, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO)

PhD in History, Center for Asia-Pacific Studies, Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Leading Research Fellow

Ph.D, heads the Eastern Europe and Eurasia Research Division at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) in Berlin

Rector of Moscow State Institute of International Relations (University) of the RF MFA, RAS Full Member, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Lecturer, Department of Asian and African Studies, MGIMO University, Research Fellow, Center for Japanese Studies, RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

Russian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, RIAC Member, RIAC Vice-President

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

Chairman of PIR Center, Lieutenant-General (retired), RIAC Vice-president

Ph.D. in History, Head of India Studies at the Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO, Senior Research Fellow at RAS Institute of Oriental Studies, RIAC Member

PhD in Political Science, research fellow at Centre for the Study of Middle East of Institute of Oriental Studies of RAS

PhD in Technical Sciences, retired Major General

Expert on Development Assistace

PIR Center Director

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

Head of the Department for Disarmament and Conflict Resolution Studies at the Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor of MGIMO-University, RIAC Member

Political observer

Ph.D. in History, Research Fellow at the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, Valdai Discussion Club Expert

Research Fellow, Russian Institute of Strategic Studies (RISS)

Doctor in History, Professor at Department of world politics, Tomsk State University

Ph.D. in Economics, Director at the Center for Migration Studies; Lead Researcher, Institute of Economic Forecasting of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Professor of International Politics, Tufts University

Ph.D., Professor of World Politics Department, Moscow State University

Deputy Director-General, Institute of Energy Strategy

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

RIAC Vice-President, President of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD., HSE Professor

Doctor of History, Deputy Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences