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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

Chair of the Iran Section, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Associate Professor at the Department of World Economy, MGIMO University

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

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

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

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

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

PhD, Senior Lecturer in Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics, Deputy Director of the Princess Dashkova Russia Center, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

Political Scientist

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

Professor, National University of Villa Maria, Argentina

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

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

PhD in Political Science; Associate Professor of the Department of Integration Processes, Senior Researcher at IMI MGIMO; Senior Researcher at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

Independent expert

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

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

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

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

Ph.D in History, Leading Research Fellow at MGIMO University, Editor-in-Chief of International Analytics Magazine

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

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

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

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

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

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

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