Aleksandr Prigarin DSc in History. Professor of the Department of Archaeology and Ethnology, Odessa I. I. Mechnikov National University (Ukraine)
Jean-Marie Rouhier-Willoughby PhD, Professor. Head of the Department of Russian Language and Literature, University of Kentucky (USA)
Marcus C. Levitt PhD, Professor Emeritus, Department of Slavic Languages, University of Southern California (USA)
Zurab Dzhapua DSc in Philology, Academician. President of the Academy of Sciences of Abkhazia (Abkhazia Republic)