P. N. Chatterje-Doody, University of Manchester, UK Rilka Dragneva, University of Birmingham, UK Peter J.S. Duncan, University College London, UK Ruslan Dzarasov, Moscow State University, Russia Tatiana Filimonova, Vanderbilt University, USA Prajakti Kalra, Cambridge Central Asia Forum, UK Elena Korosteleva, University of Kent, UK David Lane, Cambridge University, UK Paul Richardson, University of Manchester, UK Richard Sakwa, University of Kent, UK Vsevolod Samokhvalov Siddharth Saxena, University of Cambridge's Central Asia Forum, UK Ovsey Shkaratan, 'Higher School of Economics', Russia Ray Silvius, University of Winnipeg, Canada Kataryna Wolczuk, University of Birmingham, UK