Experts

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

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

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

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

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

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

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

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

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

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

Doctor of Political Science, Expert at the Institute of Oriental studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, and a Professor in the Department of Oriental Studies in the Russian State University for Humanities

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

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

RIAC Expert

RIAC Expert

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

Political Scientist

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

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

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

Independent Analyst

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

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

PhD in Technical Sciences, CEO of Digital Forensic Laboratory

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

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

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

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

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

Ph.D, Head of Chair, Cybernetics and Information Security Department, Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (National Research Nuclear University)

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

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

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