Ilyas Akhmadov served as Minister of Foreign Affairs for the Chechen government from 1999 to 2005. He is the author of The Chechen Struggle: Independence Won and Lost (2010). Nicholas Daniloff is a Professor of Journalism at Northeastern University, USA. A former correspondent for UPI and US News and World Report, he is the author of several books, including Of Spies and Spokemen: My Life as a Cold War Correspondent (2008). Anatoly Semenov is Assistant Professor at the Defense Language Institute in California, USA. Mark Kramer is Editor of the Journal of Cold War Studies and Senior Research Fellow at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University, USA.