ARTEM U. RYKUN, Doctor of Sociology, Professor, Vice-Rector for International Affairs, Head of the Social Work Department, Faculty of Philosophy, Tomsk State University (Russian Federation)

ELENA V. SUKHUSHINA, Candidate of Philosophy, Docent, Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy, Tomsk State University (Russian Federation)

HARLEY S. BALZER, Associate Professor of Georgetown University (USA)

MIKHAIL F. CHERNYSH, Doctor of Sociology, Corresponding Member of RAS, Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Russian Federation)

EVGENY A. DOBRENKO, Professor of the University of Sheffield (United Kingdom)

OKSANA V. GAMAN-GOLUTVINA, Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor at Moscow State Institute of International Relations (Russian Federation)

MARK S. JOHNSON, Director of Educational Innovation Initiative, Associate Professor of University of Wisconsin (Madison, USA)

VITALY V. KASHPUR, Candidate of Sociology, Docent, Head of the Sociology Department, Faculty of Philosophy, Tomsk State University (Russian Federation)

DAVID L. KONSTANTINOVSKIY, Doctor of Sociology, Institute of Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Russian Federation)

ANDREI Y. MELVILLE, Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor of Higher School of Economics (Russian Federation)

YURIY S. PIVOVAROV, Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Scientific Information for Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Russian Federation)

NIKOLAY S. ROZOV, Doctor of Philosophy, Professor at Novosibirsk State University (Russian Federation)

RICHARD SAKWA, PhD (History), Professor of the University of Kent (United Kingdom)

ALEKSANDR I. SOLOVYOV, Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor at Lomonosov Moscow State University (Russian Federation)

ELENA B. SHESTOPAL, Doctor of Philosophy, Professor at Lomonosov Moscow State University (Russian Federation)

ALEKSEY I. SHCHERBININ, Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor, Head of the Political Science Department, Faculty of Historical and Political Studies, Tomsk State University, Head of the Institute of Political Studies Research and Education Centre (Russian Federation)

NINA G. SHCHERBININA, Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor of the Political Science Department, Faculty of Historical and Political Studies, Tomsk State University (Russian Federation)

IVAN H. TCHALAKOV, Professor of University of Plovdiv (Republic of Bulgaria)

NADEZHDA D. VAVILINA, Doctor of Sociology, Professor, Novosibirsk State University of Economics and Management (Russian Federation)

ELENA R. IARSKAIA-SMIRNOVA, Doctor of Sociology, Professor of the Department of General Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, HSE University (Russian Federation)