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Editorial Board

Sergei Karaganov (Chairman)
Dr. Sc. (History), Chairman, Presidium of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy; Deputy Director, Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences

Martti Ahtisaari (Finland)
President of Finland, 1994-2000

Graham Allison (U.S.A)
Prof., Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs (Harvard University); former Assistant Secretary of Defense in the first Clinton Administration

Alexei Arbatov
Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Director, Center of International Security, Institute of the World Economy and International Relations, Russian Academy of Sciences

Lev Belousov (Deputy Chairman)
Dr. Sc. (History), Prof., Moscow State University

C. Fred Bergsten (U.S.A)
Ph.D. (Economics), Director, Institute for International Economics, U.S.; former Assistant Secretary, Treasury Department, U.S.

Carl Bildt (Sweden)
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sweden, Prime Minister of Sweden, 1991-1994

Vladimir Grigoryev (in a personal capacity)
Advisor to head of the Federal Agency on Press and Mass Communication of the Russian Federation

James F. Hoge Jr. (U.S.A)
Editor, Foreign Affairs

Igor Ivanov (in a personal capacity)
Dr. Sc. (History), Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation

Karl Kaiser (Germany)
Professor, Visiting Scholar, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University

Irina Khakamada
Dr. Sc. (Economics), Assistant Professor; leader of the russian democratic party "Nash Vybor ( Our choice)"

Helmut Kohl (Germany)
Chancellor of Germany, 1982-1998

Andrei Kokoshin
Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Chairman, State Duma Committee on CIS Affairs and Relations with Compatriots; Director, Institute on International Security Issues; former Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation; former First Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation

Mikhail Komissar
Director General, Interfax News Agency

Vyacheslav Kopiev
Dr. Sc. (Law), Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors, Sistema Joint Stock Financial Corporation

Mikhail Kozhokin
Dr. Sc. (History), Deputy President of Vneshtorgbank Retail Services

Yaroslav Kuzminov
Dr. Sc. (Economics), Director, Higher School of Economics - State University

Sergei Lavrov (in a personal capacity)
Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

Alexander Livshits
Dr. Sc. (Economics), Prof.; Deputy General Director, Russian Aluminium Joint Stock Company; former Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation on Economics; ex-Minister of Finance; former Deputy Head of the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation

Vladimir Lukin
Dr. Sc. (History), Prof., Human Rights Ombudsman; Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Russia

Fyodor Lukyanov
Editor-in-Chief, Russia in Global Affairs

Vladimir Mau
Dr. Sc. (Economics), Prof., Director, Academy of the National Economy under the Government of the Russian Federation

Thierry de Montbrial (France)
Director, French Institute of International Relations; Member, Academie des Sciences Morales et Politiques, Institut de France

Vyacheslav Nikonov (Deputy Chairman)
Dr. Sc. (History), Prof., Chairman, Polity Foundation

Vladimir Ovchinsky
Dr. Sc. (Law), Adviser to the Chairman of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation; Major General (Ret.)

Vladimir Pozner
President, Russian Television Academy

Sergei Prikhodko (in a personal capacity)
Aide to the Russian President

Yevgeny Primakov
Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences; President, Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation; Prime Minister of Russia, 1998-1999

Vladimir Ryzhkov
Dr. Sc. (History), State Duma Deputy

Nikolai Shmelev
Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Director, Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences

Horst Teltschik (Germany)
Chairman, Teltschik Associates; Head, Foreign Policy Office of the Chancellor of Germany (1982-1998)

Anatoly Torkunov
Dr. Sc. (Politics), Prof., Director, Moscow State Institute of International Relations; Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

Lord William Wallace (U.K.)
Prof., London School of Economics

Sergei Yastrzhembsky (in a personal capacity)
Dr. Sc. (History), Aide to the Russian President, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Special Presidential Representative for Russia-EU Relations

Igor Yurgens
Dr. Sc. (Economics), Vice-President, Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs

Alexander Zhukov
Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation

Sergei Zverev
President, KROS Public Relations Company, former Deputy Head, Administration of the President of Russia

Board of Advisors

Anatoly Adamishin
Dr. Sc. (History), Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (retired)

Olga Butorina
Dr. Sc. (Economics), Head of the European Integration Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry's Moscow State Institute of International Relations

Vladimir Entin
Dr. Sc. (Law), Assistant Professor, Moscow State University; Senior Research Fellow, Institute of State and Law, Russian Academy of Sciences; lawyer; Director, Center for Intellectual Property Legal Protection

Leonid Grigoriev
Dr. Sc. (Economics), Senior Research Fellow, Institute of the World Economy and International Relations, Russian Academy of Sciences

Alexander Lomanov
Dr. Sc. (History), Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Far Eastern Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Georgy Mirsky
Dr. Sc. (History), Senior Research Fellow, Institute of the World Economy and International Relations, Russian Academy of Sciences

Mark Shkundin
Dr. Sc. (History), Senior Research Fellow, Institute of the World Economy and International Relations, Russian Academy of Sciences

Anatoly Vishnevsky
Dr.Sc. (Economics), Director of the Center for Demography and Human Ecology at the Institute of Economic Forecasting, Russian Academy of Science

Board of Trustees

Vladimir Potanin (Chairman)
President, Interros Holding Company

Ruben Vardanyan

President, Troika-Dialog Group

Vladimir Yevtushenkov
Dr. Sc. (Economics), Chairman, Board of Directors, Sistema Joint Stock Financial Corporation; Member of the Russian Engineering Academy and International Academy of Communications

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Publisher's column

A revolutionary chaos of the new world

The world is getting more troublesome and increasingly challenging right before our eyes.

Editor's column

Will Russia Lose Georgia for Good?

Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili finally got what he couldn’t get for several years: an official visit to the White House.

Reviews and essays

Russia Is Not Prepared to Restore the Empire

When the Baltic countries entered NATO and the European Union a couple of years ago, many thought it was the end of the centuries-old "red line." Euro-Atlantic organizations had crossed into the former Russian and Soviet empires.

Russia at the Turn of the Century: Hopes and Reality

In September 2004, the Russian city of Novgorod hosted an international conference entitled Russia at the Turn of the Century: Hopes and Reality. Its organizers were the RIA Novosti news agency, the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, Russia in Global Affairs, and The Moscow Times.