Government and Politics
- Mykola Azarov - Prime minister of Ukraine 2010-
- Sanjaagiin Bayar - Prime minister of Mongolia 2007-2009
- Jānis Čakste - President of Latvia 1922–1927
- Kaarel Eenpalu - Prime minister of Estonia 1938-1939
- Antonio Maria Costa - Secretary-General of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development 1992–2002
- Yegor Gaidar - Prime minister of Russia 1992, economist
- Mikhail Gorbachev - General secretary of the USSR 1985-1991, Nobel Peace Prize 1990
- Abdiqasim Salad Hassan, BS 1965 - President of Somalia 2001-2004
- Alexander Herzen - Political writer and philosopher; widely known as the "father of Russian socialism"
- Hwang Jang-yop - North Korean politician
- Ion Iliescu - President of Romania 1990-1996, 2000-2004
- Kęstutis Lapinskas - President of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Lithuania, 2008-
- Elvira Nabiullina - Minister of Economic Development and Trade of Russia 2007-
- Zurab Noghaideli - Prime minister of Georgia 2005-2007
- Vyacheslav von Plehve - Imperial Russian politician
- Yevgeny Primakov - Prime minister of Russia 1998-1999, Russian foreign minister 1996-1998
- Sergey Stanishev, BA 1989, PhD 1994 - Prime Minister of Bulgaria 2005-2009
- Mikhail Suslov - Soviet statesman
- Aleksey Yermolov - Imperial Russian general
- Yevgeny Yasin - Russian minister of economy 1994-1997
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