Authors

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Dr. of Political Science, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Problems of Transformation of Political Systems and Cultures, World Politics Department at Lomonosov Moscow State University

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

Dr. of Philosophy, Senior Research Fellow RAS INION, Professor, MGIMO University, Professor, Higher School of Economics, Honorary President, Russian Political Science Association

Center for South-East Asia, Australia and Oceania Studies, RAS Institute for Oriental 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

PhD in Political Science; Associate Professor of the Department of Integration Processes, Senior Researcher at IMI MGIMO; Senior Researcher at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Independent expert

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

Associate Professor of International Relations (ret.), University of Cyprus

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

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

University of Birmingham

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

Ph.D in History, Leading Research Fellow at MGIMO University, Editor-in-Chief of International Analytics Magazine

Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor

Ph.D, Head of Chair, Cybernetics and Information Security Department, Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (National Research Nuclear University)

Professor of Higher Education at the University of Oxford, Director of the ESRC/OFSRE Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE), Editor-in-Chief of Higher Education, Professorial Associate of the Melbourne Centre for Study of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne, and Lead Researcher at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

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

Ph.D. in Political Science, Head of the Asia and Eurasia Program at the Russian International Affairs Council

Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor at the Department of World Politics, Faculty of International Relations, Director of World Politics Master’s Program, St. Petersburg State University

Doctor of History, Professor, Ural Federal University

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

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

PhD in Economics, Associate Professor of the World Economy Department, Academic Head of the World Economy Undergraduate Program at HSE- University

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

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

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

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

Ph.D. in History, Senior Researcher at the Department of Central and Eastern European Studies at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member