Editorial board

Editor-in-Chief

Alexey A. Maslov

Dr. Sci. (History), Professor; Director, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University.

ORCID ID: 0000-0001-7337-2874

Scopus ID: 57218918119

ResearcherID: J-9462-2015

First Deputy Editor-in-Chief

Andrey G. Fesyun

Cand. Sci. (History), Associate Professor; Deputy Director for Research, Head of the Research Department, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University; Research Fellow, Research Laboratory “Oriental Languages in Secondary School”; Head of the Department of History and Culture of Japan.

ORCID ID: 0000-0002-0700-8262

ResearcherID: J-6667-2015

Deputy Editor-in-Chief

Boris A. Zakharyin

Dr. Sci. (Philology), Honored Professor of Moscow University; Professor, Department of Indian Philology, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University; Leading Research Fellow, Research Laboratory “Ecology of Eastern Culture”.

ResearcherID: K-4177-2013

Deputy Editor-in-Chief

Vladimir Aleksandrovich Isaev

Dr. Sci. (Economics), Professor; Professor, Department of International Economic Relations of Asia and Africa, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University

ORCID ID: 0000-0003-1797-3143

Executive Secretary

Konstantin E. Baraboshkin

Cand. Sci. (Philology), Associate Professor; Head of the Department of Chinese Philology, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University.

ORCID ID: 0000-0001-9020-9630

ResearcherID: ACZ-2349-2022

Technical Secretary

Ekaterina V. Chernovol

Specialist in Educational and Methodological Work, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Editorial Board

Irina O. Abramova

Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Dr. Sci. (Economics), Professor; Director, Institute for African Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences.

ORCID ID: 0000-0003-2407-0073

Scopus ID: 56967914000

Irina I. Bass

Dr. Sci. (Philology), Associate Professor; Head of the Department of Foreign Languages and Linguistics, Saint Petersburg State Institute of Culture.

Nadezhda N. Bektimirova

Dr. Sci. (History), Professor; Head of the Department of History of the Far East and Southeast Asia, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University

ResearcherID: D-8493-2012

Stella A. Bykova

Cand. Sci. (Philology), Associate Professor; Head of the Department of Japanese Philology, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University.

ORCID ID: 0000-0001-7502-8516

Nelli V. Gromova

ORCID ID: 0000-0003-2397-2948

ResearcherID: AAJ-5848-2021

Dega V. Deopik

Dr. Sci. (History), Professor († 22 Sep 2025); Leading Research Fellow, Department of History of the Far East and Southeast Asia, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University.

Svetlana A. Kirillina

ORCID ID: 0000-0001-5769-3715

Scopus ID: 55587183900

Arkady B. Kovelman

Dr. Sci. (History), Professor; Chair of the Academic Council, Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center (Moscow, Russia).

ORCID ID: 0000-0001-7648-154X

Scopus ID: 36608120300

ResearcherID: D-8540-2012

Vitaly A. Melyantsev

Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Dr. Sci. (Economics), Professor; Head of the Department of International Economic Relations of Asia and Africa, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University

ORCID ID: 0000-0002-9139-2753

Scopus ID: 57217047945

ResearcherID: E-1183-2012

Vladimir V. Orlov

ORCID ID: 0000-0002-2649-5422

Scopus ID: 57217045829

ResearcherID: K-1041-2012

Alexander A. Pisarev

Dr. Sci. (History), Professor, Department of Russian, Language Tamkang University (Taiwan).

Marina L. Reysner

Dr. Sci. (Philology), Professor, Department of Iranian Philology, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University.

ORCID ID: 0000-0002-0592-6334

ResearcherID: LXW-2778-2024

Maria M. Repenkova

Dr. Sci. (Philology), Associate Professor; Head of the Department of Turkic Philology, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University

ORCID ID: 0000-0002-7551-3869

ResearcherID: E-5559-2012

Alexandra L. Safronova

Dr. Sci. (History), Professor; Head of the Department of History and Politics, IAAS MSU (History of Asian and African Countries).

ORCID ID: 0000-0003-1554-3449

Scopus ID: 57217042325

ResearcherID: K-1048-2012

Ekaterina K. Simonova-Gudzenko

Dr. Sci. (History), Professor; Head of the Department of History and Culture of Japan, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University.

ORCID ID: 0000-0002-0537-8016

Nataliya Yu. Ulchenko

ORCID ID: 0000-0002-0078-1199

Dmitry V. Frolov

Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Dr. Sci. (Philology), Professor; Head of the Department of Arabic Philology, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University.

ORCID ID: 0000-0001-5985-6733

ResearcherID: E-1469-2012

Alexander I. Yakovlev

Dr. Sci. (History), Professor, Faculty of World Politics, Lomonosov Moscow State University.

Scopus ID: 7202347945