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

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

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

RIAC Expert

Professor of Higher Education at the University of Oxford, Director of the ESRC/OFSRE Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE), Editor-in-Chief of Higher Education, Professorial Associate of the Melbourne Centre for Study of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne, and Lead Researcher at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow

Dean of Social Sciences Department at Higher School of Economics, Professor, RIAC member.

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

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

PhD in Technical Sciences, CEO of Digital Forensic Laboratory

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

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

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

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

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

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

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

Senior researcher, IFES, 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

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

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, RIAC Expert

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

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

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

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

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

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

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

PhD in Political Science, RIAC Expert

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent