Experts

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

Dean of Social Sciences Department at Higher School of 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

Master of Economics, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), Program jointly with UIBE (Beijing): “Russian and China: Economic and Political Trends in Eurasia”

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

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

Independent expert

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, Leading researcher, RAS Institute of Philosophy

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

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

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

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

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

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

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

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

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

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

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

Political Scientist

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

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

PhD in Political Science, RIAC Expert

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

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

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

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

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

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

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

RIAC Expert

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