Alexander ALESIN / Belarus
Department Head of the Editorial Board of Belorusy i Rynok (Belarusians and the Market)
Pavel ANDREEV / Russia
Head of International Projects, Russian News and Information Agency “RIA Novosti”, Executive Director of the Foundation for Development and Support of the Valdai Discussion Club, Member of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy (SVOP)
Oksana ANTONENKO / UK
Senior Fellow and Programme Director for Russia and Eurasia at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), London
Yves BOYER / France
Deputy Director of the Paris-based Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique (FRS), Professor at the Ėcole polytechnique
Tor BUKKVOLL / Norway
Head of the Russia Project, Norwegian Defense Research Establishment
Mesut Hakkı CAŞIN / Turkey
Professor, Yeditepe University International Relations Department
Roger N. McDERMOTT / UK
Senior Fellow in Eurasian Military Studies, Jamestown Foundation, Washington, DC; Senior International Fellow, Foreign Military Studies Office, Fort Leavenworth
Dmitry P. GORENBURG / USA
Senior Analyst and Director of Russian and East European Programs, CNA Corporation; Editor, Russian Politics and Law; Associate, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Arnaud KALIKA / France
Chief Editor, Confidential Newsletter Strategic Information TTU, specializing in issues geopolitics and military industries; lecturer, department for the study of organized crime, University of Paris II
Sergei KARAGANOV / Russia
Dean, Department, World Economy and World Politics, National Research University “Higher School of Economics”, Chairman, Presidium, Council for Foreign and Defense Policy (since 1994), Chairman, editorial board of Russia in Global Affairs magazine
Viktor LITOVKIN / Russia
Executive Editor, Independent Military Review, Colonel (ret.)
Konstantin MAKIENKO / Russia
Deputy Director of the Centre for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies (CAST), Member of the expert council under the Russian State Duma defense committee
Jeffrey MANKOFF / USA
International Affairs Fellow, Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, U.S. Department of State, Associate Director, International Security Studies, Yale University, Adjunct Fellow for Russia Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
Josef NIEBECKER / Germany
Defence Attaché at the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Moscow
Alexei NIKOLSKY / Russia
Correspondent for the political department, Vedomosti newspaper
Ruslan PUKHOV / Russia
Director of the Centre for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies (CAST); Member of the Public Council under the Russian Defense Ministry
Alexander SHARAVIN / Russia
Director, Institute for political and military analysis; Doctor of engineering sciences, professor; Colonel; Member of Academy of military sciences of Russian Federation
Toshihiko SHIOBARA /Japan
Professor of Kochi University, Japan, PhD
Vitaly SHLYKOV / Russia
Member of the Public Council of the Russian Defense Ministry; Professor of the National Research University “Higher School of Economics”; Colonel (ret.); Ph.D. in economics. Defended a thesis on NATO and joint arms production
Bertrand SLASKI / France
Senior consultant - Aerospace & Defense, Department of Defense & Security issues, CEIS, a French business research & consulting firm
Robert SMIGIELSKI / Poland
Analyst in the Polish Institute of International Affairs (Programme International Security)
Alexander STUKALIN / Russia
Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Kommersant Daily
Richard WEITZ / USA
Director of the Center for Political-Military Analysis at Hudson Institute, non-resident Senior Advisor at the Project on National Security Reform (PNSR), non-resident Senior Fellow at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS)
Sergei ZVEREV / Russia
President of CROS Public Relations & Public Affairs Company