Experts

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

Independent expert

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

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

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

Center for South-East Asia, Australia and Oceania Studies, RAS Institute for Oriental Studies

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

RIAC Expert

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the People's Republic of China, RIAC Member

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

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

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

Doctor of Political Science, Leading researcher, RAS Institute of Philosophy

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

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

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

Professor, Doctor of Economics, Head of the Economics Department at the CIS Institute, Leading Research Fellow at the RAS Institute of Economics

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

Expert at the Institute of the Middle East, graduate of International Institute of Energy Policy and Diplomacy at MGIMO

University of Birmingham

Department of Strategic Management of Fuel and Energy Sector, Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas

Senior research fellow in the Institute of European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, Carleton University, Canada

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

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

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

Political Scientist

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

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