Experts

PhD in History, Research Fellow at the Institute for International Studies, MGIMO University

Head of the Department of Military-Political Research at the Institute for US and Canadian Studies under the Russian Academy of Sciences

Third Secretary, Press-Attaché of the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Ankara

PhD in History, Leading Researcher at RAS Institute for Far Eastern Studies

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

Chief of Moldova Department, Institute of CIS Countries

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

Scientific Director of the RAS Miklukho-Maklai Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, RAS Full Member

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

RF state counselor, 1st class, RIAC Member

Program Director for Europe and Central Asia, International Crisis Group

Institute of Oriental Studies

Ph.D. in History, Full State Counsellor of the Russian Federation, 3rd class; expert on Syria, Eastern Mediterranean and the Gulf, Associate Professor of the Department of International Business at the Financial University Under the Government of the Russian Federation

PhD University of Cambridge, Researcher, Centre for Energy, Climate and Environmental Law, University of Eastern Finland; consultant at the International Institute for Sustainable Development

Head of Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States Affairs, Compatriots Living Abroad, and International Humanitarian Cooperation (Rossotrudnichestvo), RIAC Member

Director of International and Geo-Political Studies at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat), affiliated associate professor of economics at George Mason University, USA

PhD in Geography, senior researcher, Institute of Demography HSE

PhD Candidate, University of Otago, New Zealand

Political Scientist

PhD in Political Science, research fellow at Centre for the Study of Middle East of Institute of Oriental Studies of RAS

Professor at Middle Tennessee State University

Independent expert

Analyst on Russia and its Middle East policy, MPhil International Relations, University of Cambridge

Dr. of Political Science, Chief Research Fellow at the Centre for Russian–Chinese Relations Studies and Forecasting of the Institute of Far
Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D., Leading Expert, Military-Political Studies Center, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO)

PhD, Economics. Center for Military and Industrial Policy Institute for US and Canadian Studies