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Maria Lagutina is Professor of World Politics Department at the St. Petersburg State University. She is a Doctor of Political Sciences. Prof. Lagutina’s current research interests are oriented towards Eurasian integration and its regional and global dimensions, BRICS, Global Governance, Regional Integration, Comparative Regionalism, international cooperation in the Arctic. Among her publications: The Russian Project of Eurasian Integration. Geopolitical Prospects. (Lexington 2016; with co-authored N. Vasilyeva); Russia's Arctic Policy in the Twenty-first Century. National and International Dimensions. (Lexington 2019).

Natalia Tsvetkova is professor of history and head of American Studies Department at St. Petersburg State University, Russia. She writes about Cultural Cold War, cultural diplomacy and extensively about current public and digital diplomacy. Among her publications Cold War in Universities: U.S. and Soviet Cultural Diplomacy, 1945–1990 (Brill, 2021); Russia and The World: Understanding International Relations (Lexington 2017;2020).

Alexander Sergunin is a Professor of International Relations at the St. Petersburg State University and Professor of Political Science at the Nizhny Novgorod University (part-time). Specialist in Russian foreign policy thinking and making. The relevant publications include Explaining Russian Foreign Policy: Theory and Practice (Stuttgart: Ibidem Verlag, 2016).