Experts

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

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

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

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

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

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

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

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

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

RIAC Expert

Professor, National University of Villa Maria, Argentina

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

Ph.D. in History, Associate professor, Department of Diplomacy, Vice-Rector for HR Policy, MGIMO University

Independent Analyst

Correspondent, Expert magazine, Research fellow of the RAS U.S. and Canadian Studies Institute

Independent expert

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

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

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

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

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

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

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

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

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

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 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

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

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

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