Experts

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

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

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

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

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

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

Independent expert

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

Ph.D, Vice-Rector for HR, Associate professor at the Department of Diplomacy, MGIMO University

Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor at the Department of Political Science and Political Management in the Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan

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 diplomatic history, Deputy Director and Senior Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program

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

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

PhD in Political Science; Associate Professor of the Department of Integration Processes, Senior Researcher at IMI MGIMO; Senior Researcher at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences

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

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

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

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

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

PhD in Political Science

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

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, Full State Counsellor of the Russian Federation, 3rd class; expert on Syria, Eastern Mediterranean and the Gulf

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

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

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

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

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

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