Experts

Researcher at the Center for Central Asian Studies of the Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Lecturer in the School of International Affairs at the Higher School of Economics

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, Member of the Council of the Federation, RIAC Member

Doctor of Philosophy, Professor at the Higher School of Economics

PhD in History, Working Group Coordinator at the Central Eurasia Research Center, RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

Masters of Arts candidate at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies

Ph.D. in History; Senior Research Fellow and Head of the Center for Tropical African Studies, Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D, Senior lecturer at People’s Friendship University of Russia

Dr. of Political Science, Director Research Center, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences; Professor at the Faculty of World Politics, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Commentator for International Affairs under the Editor-in-Chief of Nezavisimaya Gazeta

Executive Director of Gorchakov Foundation for Public Diplomacy Support, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Doctor of History, Professor, Dean of Foreign Relations Department at St. Petersburg State University

Humanitarian Affairs Adviser, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Regional Delegation in the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus

Researcher, Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses

Deputy Director General at ‘Vestnik Kavkaza’, Information & Analytics Agency

Political commentator, researcher and expert on Middle East affairs. President of the Moscow-based International Middle Eastern Studies Club (IMESClub)

Member of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Dr.Sc. (Econ.), Professor, Director of the RAS Institute for African Studies, RIAC Member

Associate Professor of Sociology & Social Policy, the University of Sydney

Director of the Center for Post-Soviet Studies at the MGIMO University, 2nd Class Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Doctor of History

Ph.D. in History

Doctor of Political Sciences, Head of Center of Socio-Political Studies ISKRAN

MA in International Studies and Diplomacy, Political Risk Analyst

Ph.D. in Economics, Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Economic Research at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Foreign Regional Studies of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs at the National Research University Higher School of Economics

Independent researcher, lecturer at Dostoevsky Omsk State University

Research Fellow at the French Institute of International Relations (IFRI)

PhD in History, Senior Research Fellow at Political Studies Centre, Institute of Latin America, RAS