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Associate Professor, Senior researcher at the Сenter for civilizational and regional studies of the Institute of Africa of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Member of the Executive Committee of the World Federation of Scientists (WSWF)

Ph.D. in Political Science, President World Security Network, Berlin

Research Analyst Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Former Deputy Foreign Minister of Mexico and Founding President of the Mexican Council on Foreign Relations - COMEXI

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

Research Fellow, Center for Social and Political Studies, IDIP RFTA

Senior Lecturer at the Saint Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation (SUAI); Adviser to the Chair of the St. Petersburg Government Committee for External Relations

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

Junior Research Fellow, Center of the Indo-Pacific Region, Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IMEMO)

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

Ph.D., Senior Fellow of The Institute of U.S. and Canadian Studies at Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD in Political Science, Senior Lecturer, School of International Relations, Saint Petersburg State University

Senior Analyst of the Centre for Crisis Society Studies, Expert of the Middle East Institute, RIAC

RIAC member

PhD in Political Science, Associate Professor at World Politics Department, MGIMO University

PhD in History, Chief of Research and Publishing Dept, RAS Oriental Studies Institute

Independent expert

Senior research fellow at MGIMO Institute for International Studies, Center for Euroasian Studies

PhD in History, Research Fellow with the Crisis Society Study Centre

Ph.D. in Political Science, Senior Fellow, Middle East and Africa Division, German Institute for International and Security Affairs / Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP)

Ph.D. in Economics, RIAC Member

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher at the RAS Institute of African Studies

Ph.D. in Economic Sciences, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for International Economics and Finance, IDIP RFTA; Senior Research Fellow, Russian Center for APEC Studies, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA)

Major General, Strategic Advisor, Synergia Foundation

MA, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University

Head of the Department of Military-Political Research at the Institute for US and Canadian Studies under the Russian Academy of Sciences

Senior Research Fellow at the Center for the Study of Vietnam and ASEAN, Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of RAS

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

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

Independent journalist