Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS)

Editor-in-Chief, Vostok (ORIENS) journal (since 1998)

Professor of MSU, chair of the Faculty of Global Politics

Member, Science Council, Russian Foreign Ministry and the Russian Security Council

President, non-profit NGO Center for Strategic and Political Studies (since 1991)

Ambassador for the Alliance of Civilizations by the UN Secretary General (since 2007)

 visiting professor at the Political Science Department of the University of California, Berkeley, 2003