Experts

Professor of the Chair of Modern East Department of History, Political Science and Law, Russian State University for the Humanities

Lead researcher and head of the Peace and Conflict Studies Unit at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) in Moscow

Editor-in Chief, Russkiy Mir Journal

Lecturer, Department of Asian and African Studies, MGIMO University, Research Fellow, Center for Japanese Studies, RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of Russia, Press Secretary of the President

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

PhD in Political Science, Senior researcher at CEMI RAS

PhD in Pedagogy, Head of Methodic Department at Russian National Library, Board Member of Russian Library Association

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

PhD in Political Science

University of San-Francisco, Professor of International Relations

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

Doctor of History, Head of the Afghanistan Sector of the RAS Institute of Oriental Studies, Professor

MGIMO-University

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

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

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

Research Fellow at The Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD in Economics, Leading Researcher at Center for South-East Asia, Australia and Oceania Studies, RAS Institute for Oriental Studies

Professor and Chair, Department of International and Comparative Politics American University of Paris

Doctor of History, Director of the Center for the Study of the Contemporary Balkan crisis of the RAS Institute of Slavic Studies, Academician of the Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences

PhD. in History, Research Fellow, Center for Middle East Studies at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS)

Commodore, Former Strategy Director in the British Embassy in Afghanistan, author of Strategy for Action: Using Force Wisely in the 21st Century

Independent analyst

Masters of Arts candidate at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies

PhD in Political Science, Assistant Professor of Applied Political Science Department at Financial University of the Russian Federation Government

PhD in Political Studies, Associate Professor at European Studies Department, Saint Petersburg State University

Professor, Faculty of Economics, Administrative and Social Sciences, Kadir Has University

PhD in Political Science, associate professor at the Department of World Politics, MGIMO University

Middle East expert and Russian foreign policy analyst, MSc Global Public Policy, Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota. PhD candidate.