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Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

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

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

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues

Ph.D. in History, Full State Counsellor of the Russian Federation, 3rd class; expert on Syria, Eastern Mediterranean and the Gulf

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

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

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

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

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

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

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

Ph.D in History, Leading Research Fellow at MGIMO University, Editor-in-Chief of International Analytics Magazine

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

Expert at the Institute of the Middle East, graduate of International Institute of Energy Policy and Diplomacy at MGIMO

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

Research Analyst at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat)

PhD, Applied Policy Research Institute of Armenia (APRI Armenia)

PhD in Political Science, Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

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

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

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

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

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

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

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

Professor, National University of Villa Maria, Argentina

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