Experts

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

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

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

Professor, National University of Villa Maria, Argentina

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

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

RIAC Expert

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

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

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

MA, Higher School of Economics, RIAC expert and blogger

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

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

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

Political Scientist

Postgraduate at International and European Law Department, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

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

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

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

Ph.D. in History, Full State Counsellor of the Russian Federation, 3rd class; Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Oriental Studies under the Russian Academy of Sciences; Lecturer at MGIMO University; expert on Syria, Eastern Mediterranean and the Gulf, RIAC Expert

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

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

Doctor of History, Professor, Ural Federal University, RIAC Expert

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

Doctor of Political Science, Expert at the Institute of Oriental studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, and a Professor in the Department of Oriental Studies in the Russian State University for Humanities

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

PhD in Technical Sciences, CEO of Digital Forensic Laboratory

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

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

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

RIAC Expert