Authors

Research Assistant at the Center of Arab and Islamic Studies under the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Correspondent, Expert magazine, Research fellow of the RAS U.S. and Canadian Studies Institute

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

Doctor of Political Science, Head of the Regional Research Department of Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences

Director of Research and Information Centre, Intergovernmental Water Management Coordination Commission for Central Asia, Member of the World Water Council

PhD in Political Science, Associate Professor, Political Science Department, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation

PhD in History, Theology Department, Urals State Mining University

Deputy Director of the Center for African Studies, HSE University

Journalist for The New York Observer, Founder/Director of Deepcor Media Former communications director of the Himalayan Consensus - an NGO based in Kathmandu, Nepal

Senior Fellow, Energy, Investment and Connectivity, Gateway House: Indian Council on Global Relations

Independent journalist and researcher

International Security expert, MA in International Affairs, Sciences Po Paris/MGIMO

Doctor of Political Science, Senior Researcher at the Analytical Centre of Institute of International Studies, MGIMO University

Research Consultant, Chintan Research Foundation, New Delhi, Senior Research Fellow & PhD Candidate, Centre for Russian and Central Asian Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University

MENA Program Director, International Crisis Group (ICG)

Doctor of History, Professor of the Comparative Political Studies Department at MGIMO-University

Ph.D. in Political Science; Consultant, PIR Center

Doctor of History, Head of the Research Center of International Relations, RAS Institute of Sociology

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

Former Deputy National Security Advisor and Former Ambassador of the Republic of India to the Russian Federation

President of Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, RIAC member

PhD in Political Science, Andrew Derbenev is a Researcher at the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, and an Associate Professor in Moscow State Pedagogical University

Senior Research Associate at the Strategic Vision Institute (Pakistan)

PhD in Technical Sciences, CEO and Co-Founder of TSS Ltd

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

Founder of the SIKHA Foundation, lecturer at the Tbilisi State University

PhD in political science

PhD in Economics, Independent expert

Independent analyst