Andrey Kortunov is director general of the Russian International Affairs Council. He is a formerly president of the New Eurasia Foundation in Moscow. He also formerly served as a foreign policy advisor to President Boris Yeltsin and to the Committee on International Relations at the Russian Parliament.
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