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

Igor ALEKSEEV, Candidate of Sciences in Arabic and Islamic Studies, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Political Science and Law, Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, Russia. ialexeyev@mail.ru

Kerstin ARMBORST-WEIHS, Ph.D. in History, Research Assistant, Institute of European History, Mainz, Germany. armborst@ieg-mainz.de

Vladimir BOBROVNIKOV, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia. vladbobr@hotmail.com

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

Elizabeth BUETTNER, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer, Department of History, University of York, Heslington, UK. eab10@york.ac.uk

Adrienne Lynn EDGAR, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA. edgar@history.ucsb.edu

Elena GAPOVA, Associate Professor, Director, Center for Gender Studies, European Humanities University-International, The University-in-Exile (Minsk/Vilnius), Vilnius, Lithuania. e.gapova@worldnet.att.net

Andrew GENTES, Ph.D., Lecturer in Russian and European History, School of History, Philosophy, Classics & Religion, University of Queensland, Australia. a.gentes@uq.edu.au

Sergei GLEBOV, Editor of Ab Imperio (USA and Canada), Assistant Professor, History Department, Smith College and Five Colleges, Northampton, Massachusetts, USA. sglebov@smith.edu

Edward GRAY, Associate Professor, Department of History, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA. egray@fsu.edu

Nikita KHRAPUNOV, Research Fellow, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences, Crimean Branch, Simferopol’, Ukraine. khrapunovn@mail.ru

Maksim KIRCHANOV, Candidate of Sciences in History, Lecturer, Department of International Relations, Voronezh State University, Voronezh, Russia. maksymkyrczaniw@rambler.ru

Ilya KUKSIN, Candidate of Technical Sciences, Independent Scholar, Chicago, Illinois, USA. kuksin@sbcglobal.net

Jan KUSBER, Professor, Chair of East European History, Department of History and Cultural Studies, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany. kusber@uni-mainz.de

Sergei LIUBICHANKOVSKII, Associate Professor, Orenburg State Pedagogical University; The Volga Region’s Branch of the Institute of Russian History, Russian Academy of Sciences, Orenburg, Russia. svlubich@yandex.ru

Sonja LUEHRMANN, Doctoral Candidate, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. sluehrma@umich.edu

Shahnoza MADAEVA, Candidate of Sciences in Philosophy, Associate Professor, Department of History of Philosophy and Logic, Mirzo Ulugbek National University of Uzbekistan, Tashkent, Uzbekistan. shmadaeva@gmail.com

Vadim MENZHULIN, Candidate of Sciences in Philosophy, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy and Religion Studies, The National University «Kyiv-Mohila Academy», Kiev, Ukraine. vadim.menzhulin@gmail.com

Wim van MEURS, Associate Professor of European History and Politics, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. W.v.Meurs@let.ru.nl

Albina NOSKOVA, Doctor of Sciences in History, Institute of Slavic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia. noskova.albina@rambler.ru

Boris POVARNITSYN, Doctor of Sciences in History, Professor, Department of Government Administration and History, Perm State Technical University, Perm, Russia. nylg78@mail.ru

Anatoly REMNEV, Member of the Russian Academy for the Humanities, Professor of Russian History, Omsk State University, Russia. remnev@omsu.omskreg.ru

M. Safa SARAÇOĞLU, Ph.D. in History, Bloomsburg University, Department of History, Bloomsburg, PA, USA. msaracog@bloomu.edu

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

Victor SHNIRELMAN, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Ethnology and Athropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, shirv@mail.ru

Natalia SUVOROVA, Candidate of Sciences in History, Department of History, Omsk State University, Russia. suvorova@hist.omsu.omskreg.ru

Elena VISHLENKOVA, Professor, Chair for Russian History before the 20th Century, Kazan State University, Kazan, Russia. evishlenkova@mail.ru

Tuong VU, Ph.D. in Political Science, Senior Visiting Research Fellow, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore. arivth@nus.edu.sg