Chief editor

• Sergey S. Markedonov – (Ph.D. in History). Leading research fellow at the Institute for International Studies, MGIMO University. Political scientist, specialized in ethno-political developments, nationalism and nation-building, conflicts in the post-Soviet space, and European security. Visiting researcher at the Institute for Humanitarian Research (IWM) in Vienna, Austria (June-July 2014), Fudan University in Shanghai, PRC (April-May 2015), the German Society for Foreign Policy (DGAP) in Berlin, FRG (August-September 2016). Visiting Professor at the Center for Eurasian Studies at the University of Mumbai, India (January 2016). ORCID. SCOPUS. Web of Science.

Deputy editor

• Akhmet A. Yarlykapov – (Ph.D. in History). Senior research fellow at the Institute for International Studies, MGIMO University. Political scientist, Specialist in Islamic studies, religion, the North Caucasus, problems of international terrorism and extremism. ORCID. SCOPUS. Web of Science.

Editorial board

• Benedikt Harzl – (M.A.) Research Fellow at the Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies Centre of the University of Graz. Fellow in Central European Studies at Johns Hopkins University. Specializes in nation- and state-building, ethnical and political conflicts, and Russia’s policy towards the post-Soviet states. Author of papers on issues of state-building in the post-Soviet states and Russian and EU policies in Eastern Europe. ORCID. Web of Science.
  
  
• Erkin Baydarov – (Ph.D. in Philosophy) Lead Research Fellow at the R.B. Suleimenov Institute of Oriental Studies in Kazakhstan. Lecturer at the Kazakh Ablai Khan University of International Relations and World Languages. Member of the Russian Philosophical Society, the Russian Academy of Natural History, and the Russian Oriental Studies Researchers Society. Fellow at the Institute for Philosophy, Political Science and Religion Studies under the Committee of Science of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan (2008–2013). Specializes in the history and development of Central Asian countries, including Kazakhstan. Author of papers on the foreign policy issues of Central Asian and China. SCOPUS. Web of Science. ORCID.
  
  
• Matsuzato Kimitaka – (Ph.D.) Professor at the Graduate Schools for Law and Politics at the University of Tokyo, Professor at Hokkaido University (1991–2014). Specializes in international relations, the Russian Far East, the Caucasus, and the history and politics of the post-Soviet states. Author of papers on Russia’s foreign policy in the Far East and Eastern Asia. ORCID. SCOPUS.
  
  
• Andrei Tsygankov – (Ph.D.) Professor, Departments of Political Science and International Relations. San-Francisco State University. Specialist in Russian foreign policy, political processes in the post-Soviet space, and international security issues. Teaches Russian/post-Soviet, comparative politics, and international politics. ORCID. SCOPUS.

• Aleksandar Životić (Ph.D.) – Professor at the Department of Yugoslav History, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, Serbia. Professor Životić is an author of history of Southern Europe, foreign policy of the Yugoslav kingdom, Yugoslav-Albanian relations in the XX century, Yugoslav politics in the Middle East, history of the Balkan Peninsula. SCOPUS.
  
  
• Xue Fuqi (Ph.D.) – Professor, Research Fellow at the Institute of Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (China).
  
  
• Mitat Çelikpala – (Ph.D.) Professor, Dean of the Graduate School of Social Sciences at Kadir Has University. Member of the Turkish Political Science Association and the International Relations Council of Turkey. Fellow at the Department of International Relations, Hacettepe University (2002–2006). Specializes in Eurasian security, energy security and infrastructure protection. Author of papers on Turkish foreign policy, Russia–Turkey relations and regional integration in Eurasia.  ORCID. SCOPUS. Web of Science.
  
  
• Richard Sakwa – (Ph.D.) Professor at the University of Kent. Associate Fellow of the Russia and Eurasia Programme at the Royal Institute of International Affairs. Leading Research Fellow of the HSE International Laboratory on World Order Studies and the New Regionalism. Previously, he lectured at the University of Essex and the University of California. Specializes in Russia’s political development, international politics and the Cold War, the nature of post-communist political order and future socialism, global challenges for former socialist countries, issues of European and global world order. Author of papers on the political processes in Russia and its foreign policy. ORCID. SCOPUS. Web of Science.
  
  
• Seyed Mohammad Kazem Sajjadpour – (Ph.D.) President of the Institute for Political and International Studies. Director General of the Institute for Political and International Studies (1999–2003). Ambassador of Iran to the United Nations in Geneva (2003–2004). Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs on Strategic Issues (2013–2016). Specializes in international relations in the Middle East and the foreign policy of the United States. Author of papers on Iran’s foreign policy, Turkey’s foreign policy in the Middle East, the United States’ foreign policy towards Iran.
  
  
• Sanjay Deshpande – (Ph.D.) Research Fellow, Director of the Centre for Central Eurasian Studies at the University of Mumbai. Specializes in Russia’s foreign policy, Central Asia and the policies of the post-Soviet states. Author of papers on Russian policy, India–Russia relations, and the development of Central Asian states. ORCID.
  
  
• Zhao Huasheng – (M.A.) Professor at the Center for Russian and Central Asian Studies at Fudan University. Vice Chairman of the Chinese Society for the Study of Sino-Russian Relations. Visiting research fellow with the Russia and Eurasia Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington D. C. (2011). Visiting research fellow and subsequently director of the Department of Russia and Central Asia at the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (1986–2004). Specializes in Russian foreign policy and China’s relations with the countries of Central Asia and the SCO. Author of papers on Russia–China relations. ORCID.
  
  
• Alexander L. Chechevishnikov – (Ph.D. in History) Deputy Director of the Institute for International Studies at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO). Head of the Strategic Studies Department at the Research Institute of Social Systems at Lomonosov Moscow State University (1990–2020). Executive Director at the Baltic Civilization Research Institute of the Amber Bridge Fund (2010–2013). Specializes in contemporary international relations. Author of papers on the foreign policies of the United States and Russia. SCOPUS. Web of Science. ORCID.
  
  
• Andrey A. Sushentsov – (Ph.D. in Political Science) Dean, School of International Relations at MGIMO University. President of Eurasian Strategies at MGIMO Consulting. Program Director of the Foundation for Development and Support of the Valdai Discussion Club. Visiting Research Fellow at leading universities and research centres: Georgetown University (2007), Johns Hopkins University (2008), Guido Carli Free International University of Social Studies (2013), the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (2015), Harvard University (2016), and Yale University (2017). Specializes in US foreign policy in international conflicts, as well as in the South Caucasus, Ukraine and the Middle East. ORCID. SCOPUS. Web of Science.
  
  
• Valery N. Konyshev – (Dr. of Political Sciences) Professor at the Department of Theory and History of International Relations of the St. Petersburg University. Research Fellow at the St. Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute of the RAS (1987–1998). Specializes in political decision-making mechanism, the United States’ military abroad interventions, neorealism theory in international relations. Author of papers on the United States’ foreign policy. ORCID. SCOPUS. Web of Science.
  
  
• Victor L. Larin – (Dr. of Political Sciences, RAS Full Member) Professor at Far East Federal University. Deputy Chairman of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Head of the Centre for Asia-Pacific Studies, Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnology of the Peoples of the Far East of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Editor-in-Chief of the Russia and the Pacific journal and By the Pacific Ocean Map scientific and informational bulletin. Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Bulletin of the  Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Full Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences at the Division for Global Issues and International Relations. Director of the Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnology of the Peoples of the Far East (1991–2017). Specializes in Russia’s policies in the region and the foreign policy of East Asian countries. Author of papers on the foreign policies of China and Russia. ORCID. SCOPUS. Web of Science.
  
  
• Victor Yu. Apryshenko – (Dr. of History) Director of the Institute of History and International Relations at Southern Federal University. Specializes in British history of the XVI–XIX centuries, the development of Britishness concept, and Scottish nationalism. Author of papers on issues of Scottish identity. ORCID. SCOPUS. Web of Science.
  
  
• Dmitry I. Pobedash – (Ph.D. in History) Associate Professor at Ural Federal University. Specializes in global politics and US policy. Author of papers on globalization and US foreign policy.  SCOPUS. ORCID.
  
  
• Ilya N. Tarasov – (Dr. of Political Science) Professor at Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University. Specializes in comparative political science, political institutions, and international relations in Central and Eastern Europe. Author of papers on Polish and Baltic politics. ORCID. SCOPUS. Web of Science.
  
  
• Larisa V. Deriglazova – (Dr. of History) Professor in the Department of World Politics at Tomsk State University. Junior Research Fellow at the Centre for International Studies and Contemporary History at Tomsk State University (1986–1996). Specializes in conflicts in international relations and conflict settlement, asymmetric warfare, the armed forces and society, and human rights. Author of papers on the politics of the European Union. ORCID. SCOPUS. Web of Science.
  
  
• Liubov A. Fadeeva – (Dr. of History) Professor in the Political Science Department of the Perm State University. Specializes in political identity, political communities, the intelligentsia and the comparative analysis of intellectuals. Author of papers on European integration and EU policies. ORCID. SCOPUS. Web of Science.

• Maxim A. Suchkov - (PhD in Political Science) Associate Professor, Department of European and American Studies, Director, Institute for International Studies, MGIMO University. ORCID. SCOPUS. Web of Science.

• Mikhail I. Rykhtik – (Dr. of Political Science) Director of the Institute of International Relations and World History at Lobachevsky State University of Nizhni Novgorod. Dean of the International Relations Faculty at Lobachevsky State University of Nizhni Novgorod (2012–2013). Specializes in political theory, international political communications, social and political aspects of the development of NBIC technologies, negotiations, security issues, and Russia–U.S. relations. Author of papers on Russia–U.S. relations, the issue of the Arctic in international relations, multiculturalism, and biotechnologies in international relations. ORCID. SCOPUS. Web of Science.
  
  
• Natalia V. Eremina – (Dr. of Political Science) Professor at the Department of European Studies at St. Petersburg State University. Specializes in the regional and ethno-regional policies of the EU Member States, primarily the United Kingdom, and federalization and regionalization in Europe. Author of papers on the UK’s national policy issues, the Scottish Issue in the UK’s politics, and regional policy of the European states. ORCID. SCOPUS. Web of Science.
  
  
• Oleg Yu. Mikhalev – (Ph.D. in History) Associate Professor in the Department of International Relations and Global Politics at Voronezh State University. Specializes in Poland’s domestic and foreign policies, the internal and security policies of the European Union, and the policies of Eastern Europe countries. Author of papers on Poland’s foreign policy, the policies of the post-Soviet countries, and the role of the EU in international relations. Web of Science. ORCID.
  
  
• Yakov Ya. Grishin – (Dr. of History) Professor in the Department of International Relations, World Politics and Diplomacy at Kazan Federal University. Specializes in the contemporary international relations, international relations in Eastern Europe, diplomacy and consular services. Author of articles and monographs on Russia–Poland relations, the history of the Polish–Lithuanian Tatars, and the policies of Eastern European countries. ORCID. SCOPUS. Web of Science.