Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the Science and Research Branch of the Islamic Azad University in Tehran
President of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC); Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (1998–2004); Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation (2004–2007)
Deputy dean of the History Department at Lomonosov Moscow State University and director of the Information and Analytical Center on Social and Political Processes in the Post-Soviet Space