Experts

Associate Professor of International Relations (ret.), University of Cyprus, RIAC Expert

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

RIAC Expert

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

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

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

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

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

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

Professor, National University of Villa Maria, Argentina

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

MA, Higher School of Economics, RIAC expert and blogger

Independent expert

Dr. of Philosophy, Senior Research Fellow RAS INION, Professor, MGIMO University, Professor, Higher School of Economics, Honorary President, Russian Political Science Association

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Member of the Scientific Council, Chairman of the Religion, Society, and Security Program at the Carnegie Moscow Center

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

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

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

Professor, Doctor of Economics, Head of the Economics Department at the CIS Institute, Leading Research Fellow at the RAS Institute of Economics

Military Observer Head of the Department of Middle Eastern Conflicts at the Institute of Innovative Development

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

Senior research fellow in the Institute of European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, Carleton University, Canada

RIAC Expert

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

Ph.D. in History, Research Associate, Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD in History, Caucasus Problems and Regional Security Center at the MGIMO University

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

Director of the Institute of Asia and Africa of MSU , RIAC Member

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

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

Doctor of Political Science, Deputy Director of the RAS Institute of Latin America