Experts

Ph.D. in History, Scientific Advisor of The Evgeny Primakov Center for International Cooperation, Senior Research Fellow, Center for the Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies RAS

Chair of the Iran Section, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Associate Professor at the Department of World Economy, MGIMO University, RIAC Expert

Dean of Social Sciences Department at Higher School of Economics, Professor, RIAC member.

PhD in Political Science, Associate Professor, Political Science Department, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

Political Scientist

PhD, Senior Lecturer in Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics, Deputy Director of the Princess Dashkova Russia Center, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

Department of Strategic Management of Fuel and Energy Sector, Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas

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

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

Editor-in-Chief of the Arsenal of the Fatherland magazine

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor at the Department of World Politics, Faculty of International Relations, Director of World Politics Master’s Program, St. Petersburg State University

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Ph.D. in diplomatic history, Deputy Director and Senior Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program

PhD in Economics Vice Dean of International Journalism Department; Associate Professor, Department of the World Economy, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO University) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

Vice President of the Russian International Affairs Council, Executive Vice President of Sistema JSFC

Doctor of Political Science, Leading researcher, RAS Institute of Philosophy

PhD in History, Professor at Chair of Theory and History of International Relations, Boris Yeltsin Urals Federal University

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the People's Republic of China, RIAC Member

Dr. of Political Science, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Problems of Transformation of Political Systems and Cultures, World Politics Department at Lomonosov Moscow State University

Doctor of Economics, Professor of Foreign Relations Department at St. Petersburg State University, RIAC Expert

MA, Higher School of Economics, RIAC expert and blogger

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues, RIAC expert

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

PhD in Political Science, RIAC Expert

Master of Economics, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), Program jointly with UIBE (Beijing): “Russian and China: Economic and Political Trends in Eurasia”

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation. Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Foreign Affairs

Correspondent, Expert magazine, Research fellow of the RAS U.S. and Canadian Studies Institute

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

Doctor of Economics, Director of the Far East Institute's Vietnam-ASEAN Research Centre under Russia's Science Academy, RIAC Expert

Ph.D. in History, Senior Researcher at the Department of Central and Eastern European Studies at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences