Experts

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

Doctor of Sciences (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

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

University of Birmingham

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

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

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

RIAC Expert

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 History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

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

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

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

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

Doctor of Economics, Professor of Foreign Relations Department at St. Petersburg State University, RIAC Expert

Independent expert

Ph.D. in diplomatic history, Deputy Director and Senior Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program

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

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

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

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

Ph.D. in History, Full State Counsellor of the Russian Federation, 3rd class; Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Oriental Studies under the Russian Academy of Sciences; Lecturer at MGIMO University; expert on Syria, Eastern Mediterranean and the Gulf, RIAC Expert

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

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

PhD in Economics, Associate Professor of the World Economy Department, Academic Head of the World Economy Undergraduate Program at HSE- University, RIAC expert

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

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

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, 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

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

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences