Editor-in-Chief

L.L. Fituni, – Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, D.Sc. (Econ.), Professor, Deputy Director of the Institute for African Studies (RAS),  Professor of Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU) and St Petersburg State University (SPBU). Member of the Scientific Council at the Security Council of the Russian Federation, Member of the Board of the Institute for Transnational Studies (Germany-Italy-India); member of the editorial councils and the editorial boards of  “Journal of Money Laundering Control” (London), “Journal of Financial Crime” (London), “Asia and Africa today” (Moscow),  “Vestnik of the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics” (Moscow), “Vestnik Rossiiskogo Universiteta Druzhby Narodov” (Moscow) journals.

 

Deputy editor-in-chief

Y.D. Kruchkov, Research Fellow of the Centre for Global and Strategic Studies of the Institute for African Studies (RAS).

 

Executive secretary

T.V. Kochankova, Senior Research Fellow of the Centre for North African and African Horn Studies of Institute for African Studies (RAS).

 

Members of the Editorial board

I. O. Abramova, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, D.Sc. (Econ.), Professor, member of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Director of the Institute for African Studies (RAS), Professor of St Petersburg State University (SPBU), member of the Scientific Council at the Security Council of the Russian Federation, member of the  Expert Council on International Affairs of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation, member of the editorial council of the “Oriens” journal.

D.M. Bondarenko, D.Sc. (Hist.), Professor, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Director of the International center of anthropology of the National Research University “Higher School of Economics” (HSE), Deputy Director of the  Institute for African Studies,  Professor of the Center of Social Anthropology of the Russian State University for the Humanities (RSUH). Co-founder and co-editor of the international journal “Social Evolution & History”.

A.M. Vasiliev, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, D.Sc. (Hist), Professor, Honorary President of the Institute for African Studies (RAS), Head of the Department of African and Arab Studies of the Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN), President of the Center for Civilizational and Regional Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Member of the Scientific Council  at the Security Council of the Russian Federation; Member of the Scientific Expert Council under the Chairman of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation; Member of the Foreign Policy Council of the Russian Foreign Ministry; Member of the Scientific Council of the Russian International Affairs Council, Chairman of the Scientific Council of the RAS on the Problems of the Economic, Socio-Political and Cultural Development of African Countries, editor-in-chief of the journal “Asia and Africa Today”, member of the editorial board of the international journal “Social Evolution and History”.

D.A.Degterev, D.Sc. (Polit.), Head of the Department of Theory and History of International Relations of the Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN)

T.S. Denisova, Ph.D (Hist.), Head of the Centre for Tropical African Studies at the Institute for African Studies (RAS).

N.A. Jerlitsina, Ph.D. (Hist.), Senior Research Fellow of the Centre for History and Cultural Anthropology at the Institute for African Studies (RAS).

V.A. Isaev, D.Sc. (Econ.), Professor, Deputy Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies (RAS), Professor  of the Department of International Economic Relations of Asian and African Countries of the Institute of Asian and African Studies of Moscow State University (MSU), Vice-Chairman of the Russia – Syria Academic Council,  full member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences.

A.B. Korotaev, D.Sc. (Hist.), Professor, Leading Research Fellow of the Center for Civilization and Regional Studies of the Institute for African Studies (RAS),  Head  of the Laboratory for monitoring the Risks of Socio-Political Destabilization of the National Research University “Higher School of Economics” (HSE), Principal Research Fellow of the Institute of Oriental Studies (RAS), Professor of the Faculty of Global Processes of MSU, Leading Research Fellow of the International Laboratory of Political Demography and Macrosociological Dynamics of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA), Professor of the Department of Modern East Studies of the Russian State University for the Humanities (RSUH), co-editor of the international journals “Social Evolution & History” and “Journal of Globalization Studies”.

K.A. Pantserev, D.Sc. (Polit.), Associate Professor of the Department of Theory and History of International Relations of SPBU

A.L. Sapunsov, D.Sc. (Econ.), Assistant Professor, Senior Research Fellow of the Centre for Global and Strategic Studies of the Institute for African Studies (RAS), Associate Professor of the National Nuclear University “MEPHI”.

I.S. Semenenko, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, D.Sc. (Polit.), Deputy Director of the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IMEMO), member of the editorial boards of the academic journals “Political Studies. Polis” and  “South Russian Journal of Social Sciences (Chelovek. Soobschestvo. Upravlenie)” (Kuban State University), Member of the Experts Council on Political Science of the Higher Attestation Commission of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation. Member of the Experts Council of the Russian Foundation for Humanities (Political Sciences Section

G.M. Sidorova, D.Sc. (Polit.), Professor of the Department of Theory and History of International Relations of the Moscow State Linguistics University, Professor of the Department of Diplomacy and Consular Service of the Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Foreign Ministry

A.U. Sharova, Ph.D. (Econ), Senior Research Fellow of the Centre for Global and Strategic Studies of the Institute for African studies (RAS), Research Fellow of the  Center for Energy Systems of the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology.

V.G. Shubin, D.Sc. (Hist), Professor, Honorary Doctor of the University of Western Cape (South Africa), Principal Research Fellow of the Institute for African Studies (RAS), Professor of the Faculty of History, Political Science and Law of Russian State University for the Humanities (RSUH), member of the Expert Council of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, member of the editorial board of the journal “Politicon” of the South African Political Science Association; member of the editorial board of the journal “Sciencia Militaria” (South Africa),  member of the editorial board of the journals “Asia and Africa Today” (Moscow) and the “Journal of Globalization Studies”.