Authors

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

PhD in History, expert at the Institute of Strategic Estimates and Analysis, Assistant Professor at the Higher School of Economics

Senior research fellow at the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

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

Ph.D. in History; Senior Lecturer, Department of Theory and History of International Relations, Research Fellow, Center for Applied Analysis of Global Transformations, Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN)

Counselor of the National Committee for BRICS Research

Corresponding Member of RAS, Doctor of Economics, RIAC Member

Lecturer in Law at University of Aberdeen, Legal Adviser to the IFC Russia Renewable Energy Program

Research Fellow at the Department of Modern History of Central and Southeast Europe, Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

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

Ph.D in Political Science, Expert on International Affairs and Russia–Turkey Relations

Ph.D. in History, Senior Researcher at the Center for Middle East Studies of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the RAS; Associate Professor at the Department of Economics and Economic Geography of Asian and African countries, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Journalist, Sinologist

Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Dr.Sc. (Econ.), Professor, Director of the RAS Institute for African Studies, RIAC Member

Ph.D. in Economics, Head of the Sector of Economics and Politics of Japan

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

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

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

Former Defense Secretary and Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom

Ph.D., Research Fellow, Head of the Russian Foreign Policy Research Department at the Institute of Russian, Eastern European and Central Asian Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Research Associate at the Institute for International Studies (IIS) of Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO)

Assistant Professor, Department of International Relations, Bilkent University (Turkey)

Professor of government and politics at George Mason University

President of the Russian-American Council of Business Cooperation

Professor of the Diplomacy Department of the MGIMO University, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

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

RIAC President (2011–2026), Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (1998–2004), Russian Academy of Sciences Corresponding Member, RIAC Member

Doctor of Political Science; Professor at the Russian Academy of Sciences; Program Director of the Valdai International Discussion Club;Professor, MGIMO University

Member of the Union of Journalists and the Union of Russian Writers, Senior Editor, Strategy of Russia magazine