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EDITOR-IN-CHIEF NICK ROWAN PUBLISHER MARAT AKHMEDJANOV DEPUTY EDITOR ALEKSANDRA VLASOVA DESIGN POLINA VILOVA EDITORIAL TEAM GARETH STAMP RAZA SYED CHRISTOPHER SCHWARTZ, SHAMIL AKMEDJANOV, ANNA SUSLOVA TATIANA LARI VLADIMIR REMYGA
CONTRIBUTORS RAZA SYED, STIPHAN BEHER, CHRISTOPHER SCHWARTZ, ALYMKAN JEENBEEKOVA, VLADIMIR REMYGA, CHARLES VAN DER LEEUW, NICK FIELDING, TATIANA LARI, STEPHEN M. BLAND, ABROR KURBANOV, ZHULDUZ BAIZAKOVA, YULDOSH JURABOEV, ANNA LARI, SHIRIN AKINER, RAZIA SULTANOVA. INTERNS MARIA BATZ, MARGARITA BATYGINA, OLGA MARTYNENKO
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