Contributors
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Boris Kagarlitsky
Director of the Institute of Globalization and Social Movements (IGSO) in Moscow
Wassim Kalaajieh
Coordinates the work of the forum "Al-Wasatiya (Moderation) Lebanon"
Vali Kaleji
Expert on Central Asia and Caucasian Studies in Tehran, Iran.
Arnaud Kalika
Expert on international security issues at Meridiam
Pavel Kalmychek
Director of the Department for Bipartite Cooperation Development, Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation
Evgeny Kanaev
Professor at the Department of International Affairs, National Research University — Higher School of Economics; D.Sc. in History
Hasan Kanbolat
Director of the Ankara-based Center for Middle Eastern Strategic Studies (ORSAM)
Pavel Kandel
Senior Scientific Associate, Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences
Nivedita Kapoor
Research Fellow at the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, Higher School of Economics, Moscow
Boris Kapustin
Professor, National Research University Higher School of Economics
Sergei Karaganov
Academis Supervisor of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs at the National Research University Higher School of Economics; Honorary Chairman of the Presidium of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy
Emmanuel Karagiannis
Senior Lecturer, Department of Defence Studies, King's College London; Research Affiliate, National Consortium for the Studies of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism, University of Maryland
Jahangir Karami
Assistant professor, faculty of World Studies, Department of Russian Studies, University of Tehran, Iran
Tatiana Karasova
PhD in History, Senior Research Fellow, Department of Israel, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Alexander Karavayev

Researcher at the Institute of Economics, Russian Academy of Sciences

Marina Kargalova
Doctor of Science (History), Chief Research Associate of the Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences, Head of the Center for Social Development Problems of Europe
Yerlan Karin
Aide to the President of Kazakhstan, Chairman of the Kazakhstan Council on Foreign Relations (CASMO)

Andrey Karneev
Deputy Director of Institute of Asian and African Studies of M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University
Ara Karyan
Russian-Armenian University, associate professor, platform coordinator at the Institute of Oriental Studies, RAU
Hamid Karzai
Former President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (2004-2014).
Vasily Kashin
Director at the Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies, National Research University Higher School of Economics
Oleg Kashirskih
Associate Professor, Academic Head of the Educational Programme «Integrated Communications», Faculty of Communications, Media and Design, National
Research University Higher School of Economics
Alexey Kasprzhak
Director, Artek International Children’s Center (2014-2018).
Viktor Katona
Oil Supply expert at MOL Group, RIAC expert
Mark N. Katz
Professor in the George Mason University Schar School of Policy and Government, and a visiting scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington
Alexandre Kaufmann
Alexandre Kaufmann,  Agribusiness Investment Specialist at the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO).
Adil Kaukenov
Director of China Center (Kazakhstan)
Bilahari Kausikan
Former Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Singapore.
Nikolai Kaveshnikov
Head of the Department of Integration Processes at MGIMO University
Andrey Kazantsev
PhD, Dr.Sc., Chief Researcher of the Analytical Center of Institute for International Studies, MGIMO, Russia
Daria Kazarinova
Associate Professor (PhD) at the department of comparative politics of People's Friendship University of Russia (RUDN)
Alisa Kazelko
Trainee of the International Cooperation Department of the Country Analysis Department of the Central Bank
Alexej Kelin
Member of the Board, “Russian tradition” Society; member, editorial corporate staff, Russkoe Slovo journal; member, grant committee of the Czech Republic; member, NTS management committee; member of the Board, Czech/Moravian Slavonic association
Bridget Kendall
Diplomatic correspondent, BBC; Presenter, World Service programme The Forum
Vitaliy Keondjan
Professor, Dr. Sci. in Physics and Mathematics, Academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences and the New York Academy of Sciences
Nadjib Riphat Kesoema
Fellow of the Foreign Policy Community of Indonesia.
Damir Khairetdinov
Rector of Moscow Islamic University
Bijan Khajehpour
Managing partner at Eurasian Nexus Partners
Dareen Khalifa
Senior Analyst at the International Crisis Group working on security, conflict, politics, and governance in Syria.
Taimur Khan
International Relation Scholar with specialisation on Eurasia
Zohreh Khanmohammadi
PhD candidate and Researcher of Russian Affairs, Tehran Institute
Akram Kharief
An Algerian political journalist who focuses on defence and security issues in the North African region. He owns the online media outlet MENADEFENSE, which covers conflicts and defense aquisitions in the region.
Olga Kharina
Research Fellow at the School of International Regional Studies, Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, Higher School of Economics National Research University
Elena Kharitonova
Centre for Civilization and Regional Studies, Senior Researcher, PhD in Psychology, Associate Professor, Institute for African Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences
Alexander Kharlamenko
Senior research fellow, Institute of Latin American Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences
Ulugbek Khasanov
Former Aide to the President of Uzbekistan, Head of Regional Security & Conflicts Study Lab., University of World Economics & Diplomacy
Rustam Khaydarov
Doctor of Philosophy, expert from Tajikistan.
Alexey Khlebnikov
RIAC Middle East Expert, Independent Consultant
Anton Khlopkov
Director of the Center for Energy and Security Studies (CENESS)
Maria Khodynskaya-Golenischeva
Deputy Director of the Foreign Policy Planning Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. Professor at the Department of Applied International Analysis, MGIMO University
Khudoberdi Kholiknazar
Director of the Center for the Study of Central Asia and China
Alexander Khramchikhin
Deputy Director, Institute for Political and Military Analysis
Konstantin Khudoley
Professor at the Faculty of International Relations of St. Petersburg State University
Davud Kiani
Deputy Head of the Institute for Iranian and Eurasian Studies (IRAS)
Dmitry Kiku
Deputy Director of the Department of External Restrictive Measures Control, Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation. RIAC Expert
Tomoo Kikuchi
Professor of Economics at Korea University
Ye Eun Kim
Asan Academy Fellow at Hudson Institute
Anna Kireeva
Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Asian and African Studies
Ksenia Kirkham
PhD (King’s College London), with four years of teaching experience in higher education (international economics and EU integration) and eight years as an analyst and manager in the oil & gas and transportation sectors
Denis Kiryukhin
Expert of the Kiev Centre of Political Studies and Conflictology
Dmitry Kiselev
Director General, Rossiya Segodnya International Information Agency
Valery Kistanov
D.Sc. in History and Ph.D. in Economics, is head of the Center for Japanese Studies at the Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Václav Klaus
Václav Klaus is a Czech economist and politician who served as the second President of the Czech Republic from 2003 to 2013
Andrey Klepach
Chief Economist, VEB.RF
Vasily Klimov
Junior Researcher, Center for International Security, Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), Russian Academy of Sciences
Andrey Klimov
Deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, Co-chairman of the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee
Alexander Knyazev
Senior Research Fellow of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences
Kazushige Kobayashi
Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva
Bassma Kodmani
Bassma Kodmani is a co-founder of the Arab Reform Initiative and serves as its Executive Director since 2005
Michael Kofman
Senior Research Scientist at Center for Naval Analyses; Fellow at the Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson International Center in Washington
Yuri Kofner
Head, Eurasian sector, CCEIS, HSE, Analytic, OECD-HSE Partnership Centre, Research assistant, IIASA, Editor-in-chief, analytical media "Eurasian Studies"
Alexey Kokorin
Director of the Climate and Energy programme of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
Andrei Kokoshin
Dean of the World Politics Department of Lomonosov Moscow State University, RAS Full Member, RIAC Member
Kirill Koktysh
Political analyst, associate professor of MGIMO
Ekaterina Koldunova
Associate Professor, Department of Asian and African Studies, Deputy Dean, School of Political Affairs, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (University), the MFA of Russia
Tamara Kolesnikova
Junior Research Fellow, Center for Military-Political Analysis, USA

Irina Kolgushkina
Research Fellow at the Centre for the Indian Ocean Region, IMEMO RAS
Vasily Koltashov
Head of New Society Institute
Mikhail Konarovsky
Senior fellow with the MGIMO University Institute for International Studies.
Alexander Kondakov
Researcher, Centre for Independent Social Research, Saint-Petersburg, Head of the Department for Work with Students, Saint-Petersburg Institute for International Economical Relations, Economics, and Law
Srikanth Kondapalli
Chairman and Professor in Chinese Studies at the Centre for East Asian Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Natalia Kondratyeva
Candidate of Sciences (PhD) in International Economics, Associate Professor at the Moscow-based Higher School of Economics
Alexander Konkov
Head of the Division for International Peer Review at the Analytical Center for the Government of the Russian Federation and Visiting Lecturer at Moscow State University
Ivan Konovalov
Director of the Center for Strategic Trends Studies
Alexei Konovalov
Head of the World Ocean Center at the State Research Institution “Council for the Study of the Productive Forces” (SOPS), Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation and Russian Academy of Sciences, and the Section for Public–Private Partnership Issues at the Science-Expert Council of the Government’s Marine Board, Candidate of Sciences
Dimitris Konstantakopoulos
Former adviser to the Greek Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou and former Member of Secretariat of the Central Committee of the SYRIZA Party.
Dmitry Konukhov
Research Associate of the Moscow-based Center for Energy and Security Studies (CENESS)
Valery Konyshev
Professor, Department of International Relations, School of International Relations, St. Petersburg State University
Yevgeny Kopatko
Sociologist and Research&Branding Group cofounder
Evgeny Korendyasov
PhD, Head of Center for Russian-African Relations Studies at RAS Institute for African Studies
Irina Korgun
Senior Researcher,Center for Russian Strategy in Asia, Institute of  Economics, RAS
Francis Kornegay
Senior Fellow, Institute for Global Dialogue, University of South Africa
Andrei Korobkov
Professor of political science at the Middle Tennessee State University
Alexander Korolev
Lecturer in Politics and International Relations in the School of Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, at the University of New South Wales, Sydney.
Alexander Korolev
Deputy Director of the Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies, National Research University Higher School of Economics
Elena Korotkova
Editor-in-Chief, Russia Media Centre, Kyrgyz Republic
Andrey Kortunov
Director General of the Russian International Affairs Council (2011–2023)
Andrew Korybko
A Moscow-based American political analyst specializing in the relationship between the US strategy in Afro-Eurasia, China's Belt & Road Initiative, and Hybrid Warfare
Grigory Kosach
Professor of the Chair of Modern East Department of History, Political Science and Law in RSUH
Konstantin Kosachev

Chair of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation.

Daniel Kosinski
Institutional Director of Instituto da Brasilidade. Researcher at UFRJ (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro), International Political Economy Program (PEPI -UFRJ)
Sergey Kostelyanets
Head of the Center for Sociological and Political Science of the Institute of African Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences
Ruslan Kostyuk
Professor at St. Petersburg State University, Doctor of Historical Sciences
Dmitri Kosyrev
Russian News & Information Agency RIA Novosti Political Columnist, TV and radio commen­tator; Asian expert
Anicet Gabriel Kotchofa
Ambassador of the Republic of Benin to the Russian Federation and CIS Countries (2012 – 2016), High Commissioner of the EECO for International Relations - Deputy Secretary General of the EECO
Agrafena Kotova
Manager, Carbon Group, PAO Severstal
Tatyana Koval
Deputy Head of Ibero-American Department, Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies of at the National Research University – Higher School of Economics
Anton Kozlov
Head of Foreign Projects and International Cooperation Department, JSC Russian Railways
Vadim Kozyulin
Head of the Center for Global Studies and International Relations of the IAMP of the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.
Alexander Kramarenko
Minister-Counsellor at the Russian Embassy to the UK (2011-2017), member of Russian International Affairs Council, member of Council on Foreign and Defense Policy
Ilya Kramnik
RIAC expert
Ivan Krastev
Chairman, Centre for Liberal Strategies, Sofia
Meir Kraus
Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute,  previous director of the Jerusalem Institute for Policy Research.


Sergey Kravchenko
Professor, Head of the Department of Sociology, MGIMO-University, Moscow, Russia, Moscow State Institute of International Relations, MFA of Russia; Main  Researcher, Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology of the Russian Academy of Science, Russia.
Viktor Kremenyuk
Deputy Director of the Institute for US and Canadian Studies
Oleg Krivolapov
PhD in Political Science, Senior Researcher, Department of Military-Political Research, Institute for US and Canadian Studies
Vladimir Kršljanin
Vice President of the International Slavic Academy of Sciences, Education, Arts and Culture, High Advisor to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Serbia
Reinhard Krumm
Head, Regional Office for Cooperation and Peace in Europe (Vienna), Friedrich Ebert Foundation


Yury Krupnov
Head of the Development Movement and chairman of the Supervisory Council of the Institute for Demography, Migration and Regional Development
Olga Kryshtanovskaya
Doctor of Social Science, Director General of the Institute of Applied Politics
Mikatekiso Kubayi
Researcher, Institute for Global Dialogue associated with UNISA, Research Fellow: Institute for Pan African Thought and Conversation, Doctoral Candidate, Political Studies, University of Johannesburg
Andrew Kuchins

President, American University of Central Asia.

Ulrich Kühn
Deputy Head, Arms Control and Emerging Technologies, Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg and a Nonresident Scholar with the Nuclear Policy Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Lydia Kulik
Head of India Studies at the SKOLKOVO Institute for Emerging Market Studies, Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO
Yury Kulintsev
Deputy Director of the Institute of Far Eastern Studies (IFES) Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC expert
Olga Kulkova
Research Fellow at the Centre for Studies of Russian-African Relations and Foreign policy of African countries, Institute for African Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences
P.R. Kumaraswamy
Professor at the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi
Gürkan Kumbaroğlu
Professor of Industrial Engineering at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul, Turkey, Founding Director and Chairman of the Board of the Energy Policy Research Center at Boğaziçi University
Charles Kupchan
Professor of International Affairs, Georgetown University; Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations
Clifford Kupchan
Сhairman and Director of research, Eurasia Group
Nikita Kuprikov
Chairman of the Technical Committee for standardization №187 (TC187) "Research in the Polar Regions" of the Federal Agency for Technical Regulation and Metrology (Rosstandart)
Alexei Kupriyanov
Head of Center of the Indo-Pacific Region, Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IMEMO)
Ruslan Kurbanov
Director of the Altair Foundation for Support of Humanitarian Initiatives and senior researcher at the Institute of Oriental Studies
Çağlar Kurç
Visiting research scholar at the Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies
Artyom Kureev
Expert of the Center for Economic and Socio-Cultural Development Studies of the CIS and Central Europe
Daniel Kurtzer
S. Daniel Abraham Professor of Middle East Policy Studies at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
Konstantin Kurylev
Professor, Department of Theory and History of International Relations, PFUR, Director of Center for the Research of Post-Soviet Countries (CRPSC), editor-in-chief of the “Post-Soviet Studies” journal
Julia Kusznir
Postdoctoral Research Assistant in the Field of Energy and Environmental Politics, Jacobs University, Bremen, Associate researcher at Bremer Energie Institut, Germany
Yelena Kuzmina
PhD in Political Science, Sector Head, Center for Post-Soviet Studies at the Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Russian Academy of Sciences
Alexander Kuznetsov
Professor of the Department of Diplomacy at MGIMO, Candidate of Historical Sciences, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (retired)
Evgeny Kuznetsov
CEO of Orbita Capital Partners; Ambassador of the University of the Singularity
Aleksei Kuznetsov
Senior economist at the Eurasian Development Bank (EDB)
Vasily Kuznetsov
Deputy Director for Science of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Head of the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences