Experts

Director of the Institute of Russian, Eastern European and Central Asian Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Vice President of the Council on Strategic Interaction between China and Russia at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Vice Admiral, United States Coast Guard (retired)

PhD. in History, Research Fellow, Center for Middle East Studies at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS)

President of the Jordan-based Political Studies of the Middle East Center, Founder of the US-based Geostrategic and Media Center

PhD in Philology; Associate Professor; Department of the Theory of Law and Comparative Legal Science HSE

PhD in Chemistry, Chemical Weapons Expert, Former UN inspector in Iraq, Creator of Russian chemical weapons destruction technologies

PhD in Economics, Head of the European Security Department RAS Institute of Europe

PhD in Political Science, Senior Research Fellow at Center for Global Issues, Institute for International Studies of MGIMO–University

Dr. of Social Sciences, Professor of the International Journalism Department at MGIMO University, Editor-in-Chief of Polis. Political Research, Russia’s leading journal on political science, senior researcher at IMEMO RAN

Editor-in Chief, Russkiy Mir Journal

Mexico's Ambassador to the Russian Federation

Major General, Strategic Advisor, Synergia Foundation

PhD in Political Sciences, Dean of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, National Research University Higher School of Economics

Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of Russia, Press Secretary of the President

PhD in Economics, Associate Professor of the World Economy Department, Academic Head of the World Economy Undergraduate Program at HSE- University, RIAC expert

Center for South-East Asia, Australia and Oceania Studies, RAS Institute for Oriental Studies

Academic Director of the RAS Institute of General History, RAS Full Member, RIAC Member

Head of the Scientific and Organizational Department at the Russian Academy of Missile and Artillery Sciences, Doctor of Engineering, Associate Professor

Director, Center for Spatial Analysis in International Relations, MGIMO University

Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Social, Political and Economic Problems in the 20th Century, Institute of World History, Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC expert

International Information Security and Global Internet Governance Program Coordinator, PIR Center

A violent end to the Libyan crisis also seems unlikely in the near term, as the forces in the country’s east will have trouble organizing an effective attack on Tripoli without the support of Russia, whose military has other things in sight

Director Emeritus of the RAS Institute of Europe, RAS Full Member

PhD, Professor, Senior Researcher of the Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences

Scientific director of the Lobachevsky Sate University of Nizhny Novgorod

Political scientist, Moldova, RIAC expert

PHD Scholar, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

Ph.D. in Political Science, Director of the Civil Diplomacy Fund, Ukraine

Ph.D. (History), Head of the Department of Ethno-Political Conflict at the Institute of Europe under the Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC expert

Founder and Chairman, CeNext Consulting Group, New Delhi