Authors

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

PhD in History, Professor at Chair of Theory and History of International Relations, Boris Yeltsin Urals Federal University

PhD in Technical Sciences, CEO of Digital Forensic Laboratory

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

Independent expert

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

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

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues

PhD in Political Science

Independent Analyst

Research Analyst at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat)

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

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

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

Expert at the Institute of the Middle East, graduate of International Institute of Energy Policy and Diplomacy at MGIMO

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

University of Birmingham

Vice President of the Russian International Affairs Council, Executive Vice President of Etalon Group

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

Senior Lecturer, Saint Petersburg State Electrotechnical University “LETI” and Saint Petersburg State University

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

PhD, Senior Lecturer in Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics, Deputy Director of the Princess Dashkova Russia Center, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

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

Editor-in-Chief of the Arsenal of the Fatherland magazine

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

Doctor of Economics, Director of the Far East Institute's Vietnam-ASEAN Research Centre under Russia's Science Academy

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

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