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Simoniya, Nodari A. Corresponding member of the Department of World Economy
Problems and International Relations of the Russian Academy in 1993.
Responsible for scientific-organizing questions: Prof. Aleksei Iv.
Semienov, tel.128-33-33
Members of the Bureau:
Academician Evgenii M. Primakov, tel.429-30-09
Primakov, Evgenii M., D. Econ. S. Born in 1929 in Kiev. Russian economist
specializing in international affairs and historian. Corresponding member of the
Economics Department of the Academy since 1974, and academician since 1988,
when he was made Academician Secretary of the Problems of World Economics
and Internation Relations Department of the Academy. He graduated from the
Moscow Institute of Oriental Studies in 1953. Between 1953 and 1962, he served
on the State Committee for Television and Radio Broadcasting. From 1962 to
1970, he worked at the Asia and Africa desk of Pravda as an analyst, and later as
associate editor. In 1970, he became assistant Director of the Institute of World
Economy and International Relations of the AN SSSR. From 1978 to 1985, he was
director of the Oriental Studies Institute in Moscow. Since 1985, he has been
Director of the World Economics and International Relations Institute in Moscow,
that was established in the mid-1950s. He became Academician Secretary to the
Department in October1988. He has written much on the economic, political, and
social processes in Egypt and other Arab countries, on new manifestations and
trends in the relations between developing nations and imperialist countries, and on
certain theoretical problems of continuing international development. Nasser Prize,
1975. (GSE 20, p. 537.)
Academician Aleksandr N. Iakovlev, tel.157-77-96
Yakoviev, Aleksandr N., D. Hist. S. Corresponding member of the Economics
Department since 1984. Corresponding member of the World Economics and
International Relations Department of the Academy since August 1988; academician
in 1993.
Corresponding member Viktor V. Volskii, tel.231-53-23
Vol’skii (Volskii), Viktor V., D. Econ. S. Corresponding member of the Economics
Department of the Academy since 1984. Corresponding member of the Problems of
World Economics and International Relations Department of the Academy since
August 1988. Since 1966, he has been director of the Latin American Institute in
Moscow which was founded in 1961 to research the economic, agrarian and
political problems of Latin American states, including Cuba. (LDA 89-11378.)
Corresponding member Anatolii An. Gromyiko, tel.290-63-85
Gromyko, Anatolii A., D. Hist. S. Born in 1932. Corresponding member of the
Problems of World Economics and International Relations Department of the
Academy since August 1988. Since 1976, he has been Director of the Africa
Institute in Moscow. Established in 1959, this institute researches economic, sociopolitical,
international, historical, and cultural-ethnological problems of African
states. Corresponding member of the History department since 1981. (LDA 89-
11378.)
Corresponding member Timur T. Timofeiev, tel.916-37-03
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