Sergei ABASHIN, Senior Research Fellow, Department of Central Asia and Kazakhstan, Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia. s-abashin@mail.ru

Najam ABBAS, Ph.D., Research Fellow, Central Asian Studies Unit, Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, UK. nabbas@iis.ac.uk

Jeremy ADELMAN, Professor of History, Department of History, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA. adelman@princeton.edu

Zygmunt BAUMAN, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Leeds, United Kingdom.

Seymour BECKER, Professor Emeritus, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA. seymourb@nyc.rr.com

Mark R. BEISSINGER, Professor of Politics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA. mbeissin@princeton.edu

Martin BEISSWENGER, Ph.D. Student, Department of History, University of Notre Dame, IN, USA. beisswenger.1@nd.edu

Kirsten BÖNKER, Ph.D., Research Assistant, Division of East European History, Bielefeld University, Germany. kboenker@uni-bielefeld.de

Nicholas BREYFOGLE, Associate Professor, Department of History, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA. Breyfogle.1@osu.edu

Vladimir BYSTRYUKOV, Associate Professor, Chair of Philosophy, Political Science, and Sociology, Samara State Pedagogical University, Russia. bokshich@yandex.ru

Nancy CONDEE, Professor, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Pittsburgh, USA. condee@pitt.edu

Sergei DIGOL, Independent researcher, Chisinau, Moldova. s_digol@mail.ru

Alexander FILIUSHKIN, Associate Professor, Chair for the History of Slavic and Balkan Countries, St. Petersburg State University, Russia. ilich_fil@mail.ru

Ekaterina GORBUNOVA, Graduate Student, The State University of Human Sciences, Institute of World History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia. evgorbunova@gmail.com

Svetlana KONSTANTINOVA, MA Student, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary. konstantinovass@mail.ru

Alexey MIKHALYOV, Candidate of Sciences in History, Assistant Professor, Chair of Government and Municipal Administration, Buriat State University, Ulan Ude, Russia. mihalew80@mail.ru

Elena NOSENKO, Research Fellow, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia. nosen@comail.ru

Ludmila NOVIKOVA, Candidate of Sciences in History, Assistant Professor, Department of Foreign Languages and Regional Studies, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia. novikova_l@gmx.net

Sergei PROZOROV, Ph.D. in Political Science, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland.
sergei.prozorov@helsinki.fi

Anatoly RUSNACHENKO, Professor, Hrynchenko Kyiv Municipal Pedagogical University, Kiev, Ukraine. rusnachenko@yahoo.com

Steven SEEGEL, Assistant Professor, Department of History and Political Science, Worcester State College, Worcester, MA, USA. mappofile@yahoo.com

Alexander SEMYONOV, Editor of Ab Imperio (Central and Eastern Europe), Associate Professor, Smolny College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, St. Petersburg State University, Russia. semyonov@abimperio.net

Pavel STEFANOV, Archimandrite, Associate Professor, Shoumen University, Shoumen, Bulgaria. pavel_stefanov@hotmail.com

Ronald SUNY, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, The University of Chicago; Charles Tilly Collegiate Professor of Social and Political History, The University of Michigan, USA. rgsuny@uchicago.edu

Mikhail SUSLOV, Candidate of Sciences in History, Ph.D. Student, European University Institute, Florence, Italy. Mikhail.Suslov@EUI.eu