Igor Nikolaevich Panarin is a Russian professor and political scientist. He is best known for predicting in 1998 that the United States would disintegrate by 2010. After the date came and went his claim was criticised.
Igor Pavlovich Shaskol'Skii was a Russian medievalist and economic historian who was a specialist in Russian relations and trade with the Baltic provinces and Scandinavia in the medieval and early-modern periods. Early in his life he was present during the Siege of Leningrad and subsequently worked at various Soviet state-sponsored institutions. He was a part-time lecturer at Saint Petersburg University and a corresponding member of the Saint Petersburg Institute of History and its predecessors. He challenged the established Soviet positions on the origins of the Rus' and trade through the Baltic, and was instrumental in the wider dissemination of primary source material.
Igor Primorac, also Igor Primoratz, is a Croatian philosopher of Russian origin who is occupied with ethics, philosophy of sex, and philosophy of law. He teaches at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb and other universities. He publishes his scholarly works mostly in English.
Igor Yakovlevich Rabiner is a Russian football journalist and writer known for his work with Sport-Express and his books, most notably his controversial bestseller How Spartak Was Being Killed, where he describes the crisis FC Spartak Moscow faced in the early 2000s, at the end of Oleg Romantsev's reign and immediately after it. Later, that book was followed by its sequel, How Spartak Was Being Killed 2 about the later events, and Lokomotiv We Have Lost that exploits similar themes regarding another popular Russian football team, Lokomotiv Moscow. In 2012, after being sacked by Sport-Express he moved to the Championat.com sports portal.
Igor Vladimirovich Rybakov is a meta-entrepreneur who co-owns the Technonikol industrial corporation He appeared on Forbes's 2021 list of the world's wealthiest people with a net worth of $2 billion. He is an author, actor, showman, singer, and producer. His motto is: “What we dwell on is who we become.”
Igor Rostislavovich Shafarevich was a Soviet and Russian mathematician who contributed to algebraic number theory and algebraic geometry. Outside mathematics, he wrote books and articles that criticised socialism and other books which were described as anti-semitic.
