Contributors

Richard Labeviere

Journalist and writer, editor-in-chief of espritcors@aire.com/Observatoire de la Defense et de la Securite

Richard Lachmann

1956–2021
Professor of Sociology Department, University at Albany, USA

Ricardo Ernesto Lagorio

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Argentine Republic to the Russian Federation (2017–2020), Advisory Member of the Argentinean Council of Foreign Relations (CARI)

Maria Lagutina

Professor, Department of World Politics,Saint Petersburg State University

David Lane

David Lane is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (UK), Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Emeritus Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge University. He has written extensively on industrial societies and the world economy, socialism and post-socialism, elites and classes. Recent publications include: Глобальный неолиберализм и альтернативы. Moscow: INIR, Seriya: Sovremenaya ekonomicheskaya mysl’. 2025

Kai-Olaf Lang

Senior research fellow at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs

Andrei Lankov

Professor, Kookmin University (Seoul)

Xiang Lanxin

Professor, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva; Director of Center of One Belt, One Road and Eurasian Security, China National Institute for SCO Studies, Shanghai

Ali Larijani

Speaker of the Islamic Consultative Assembly of Iran

Viktor Larin

Doctor of History, Professor at the FEFU Asia-Pacific Department

Marlene Laruelle

Director, Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES), Co-Director, PONARS-Eurasia
Director, Central Asia Program, George Washington University

John Laughland

Director of Studies at the Institute of Democracy and Cooperation in Paris

Peter Lavelle

Host of RT’s “CrossTalk”

Sergei Lavrenov

Head, Department of Moldova, Institute of CIS Countries

Sergey Lavrov

Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation

Anna Lavut

PhD in Economics, Leading Research Associate at the RAS Institute for Latin American Studies

Milan Lazović

Programme Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

Marina Lebedeva

D.Sc. (Political Science), Professor, Head of the Department of World Politics, MGIMO–University Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Russian Federation

Arnaud Leclercq

French author and private banker, expert on the Middle East

Sung-Yoon Lee

Kim Koo-Korea Foundation Professor in Korean Studies and Assistant Professor at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University

Todd Lefko

Chairperson of the Russian American Business and Culture Council for Minnesota

Robert Legvold

Marshall D. Shulman Professor Emeritus, Columbia University, and Director of the Euro-Atlantic Security Initiative

Lucas Leiroz de Almeida

Master candidate in Defense and International Security, Brazilian War College

Yana Leksyutina

DSc Politics; Professor, Russian Academy of Sciences; Professor, St. Petersburg State University

Mark Leonard

Co-founder and director of the European Council on Foreign Relations, the first pan-European think tank

Vladimir Lepekhin

Director of the EurAsEC Institute; member of the bureau of the Research Council on Eurasian Economic Integration of the Russian Academy of Sciences; editor-in-chief of the European Communications Center

Emmanuel Leroy

French political scientist and former advisor of the National Front leader Marine Le Pen

Alla Levchenko

Political scientist and expert in international relations; Lecturer, MGIMO University; Editor at the Russian Journal of Cultural Studies and Communication, MGIMO University

Daniel Levy

President of the U.S./Middle East Project (USMEP), Director of the Middle East and North Africa Programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations (2012-2016)

Philip Levy

Senior Fellow on the Global Economy, The Chicago Council on Global Affairs; Adjunct Professor of Strategy, Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management

James Andrew Lewis

Senior Vice President and Director of the Technology Policy Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

Eric Li

Founder and managing director of Chengwei Capital

Dominic Lieven

Fellow of the British Academy; Research professor, Cambridge University

Anatol Lieven

Senior Research Fellow, Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft

Anastasia Likhacheva

Dean of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, HSE University

Yuexin Rachel Lin

Postdoctoral fellow at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore

Gallia Lindenstrauss

Research Fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies

Jin Ling

Senior Research Fellow, China Institute of International Studies

Nikita Lipunov

Junior Research Fellow at the MGIMO Institute for International Studies (IMI MGIMO)

Alena Lisenkova

Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of International Studies at MGIMO University and the Faculty of International Relations at St. Petersburg State University

Yaroslav Lissovolik

An economic expert

Viktor Litovkin

Head of TASS military news editorial office

Nikolay Litvak

Doctor of Sociological Sciences, Professor, MGIMO University, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

Junmei Liu

Deputy Director of the Center for the Study of Emerging Market Economies at Fudan University

Roman Lobov

Research fellow at the Center for Asia and Asia Pacific, RISS

Olga Logunova

Associate Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences, National Research University Higher School of Economics

Grigory Lokshin

Leading Research Fellow, Center for the Study of Vietnam and ASEAN, Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Alexander Lomanov

Professor, RAS, Chief Researcher at the Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), RAS.

Augusto Lopez-Claros

Chair of the Global Governance Forum

Alexander Losev

Financial expert, Member of Presidium of the Council on Foreign and Defence Policy (SVOP)

Ivan Loshkarev

Associate Professor at the Department of Political Theory, Researcher at the Foreign Ministry’s Institute for International Studies - MGIMO University

Artyom Lukin

Associate Professor, Deputy Director for Research, School of Regional and International Studies, Far Eastern Federal University

Vladimir Lukin

Russian politician, scholar, historian and political scientist

Alexander Lukin

Department Head, Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, School of International Affairs, National Research University Higher School of Economics; Director, Center for East Asian and SCO Studies, Moscow State Institute of International Relations of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Grigory Lukyanov

Researcher, Center of Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies RAS

Fyodor Lukyanov

Research Director of the Valdai Discussion Club, Chairman, Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, Editor-in-Chief, Russia in Global Affairs journal

Fauzan Luthsa

Geopolitical Analyst and Journalist based in Jakarta

Edward N. Luttwak

Senior associate, Center for International and Strategic Studies (CSIS)

Sergei Luzyanin

Director of the Institute of Far Eastern Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Telma Luzzani

Argentine journalist, writer, anchor of “Vision 7 Internacional”

Roderic Lyne

Former British Ambassador to Russia

Mikhail Lysenko

Former head of the International Cooperation Department at the state nuclear corporation Rosatom (2008-2015)