Experts

Director of the Department of the Government Support of Periodical Press and Book Industry, Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Analyst at MGIMO Institute for International Studies (IMI MGIMO)

Honorary President of the Non-Governmental Organization "Association of Euro-Atlantic Cooperation", Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

President of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (1998–2004)

PhD in History, Arab and Islamic Studies at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Independent Expert

Professor at Middle Tennessee State University

RIAC Expert, Subject Matter Expert on Islamic Extremism, and cultures, tribes, and sects of the Middle East and Central Asia, Cultural Intelligence Consultant for a private U.S. firm

Doctor of History, Director of the Center for the Study of the Contemporary Balkan crisis of the RAS Institute of Slavic Studies, Academician of the Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences

Rector of the Urals Federal University named after the First Russian President B.N. Yeltsyn

Ph.D., RIAC Acting Director of Programs

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

Political Analyst, RIAC Expert

PhD in Political Science, Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

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., Assistant Professor, Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia

CEO and co-founder of Hozint - Horizon Intelligence, founder and director of the International Security Observer

Doctor of History, Head of Center for the Middle East Studies of the IMEMO, Professor of the Oriental Studies Department of the MGIMO University, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies of the Institute of Oriental Studiesof the Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Member

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Holy See and RF Representative to the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, RIAC member

PhD in Political Science, Assistant Professor of Applied Political Science Department at Financial University of the Russian Federation Government

MA, MGIMO University

RIAC Expert

Academic Director of Siberian Federal University, RAS Full Member

Ph.D. in Technical Sciences, Deputy Director of the Energy Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Deputy Director of the Centre for Sustainable Infrastructure Development Research, Institute of Economics and Utility Regulation, Higher School of Economics

PhD in Philosophy, Expert in Latin languages

Doctor of Political Science, Professor, Head of the Global Political Processes Department of the MGIMO University

Director of the Center for advanced studies of national security of Russia, RAS Full Member, RIAC Member

Consultant in Trade and Food Security, and Director of “Green House”

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Vice-president

PhD (History), Research Fellow at School of International Affairs, Higher School of Economics, Moscow