Experts

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

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

Independent Analyst

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

PhD in Philosophy, Senior Lecturer at the HSE University

Ph.D. in Political Science, Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

PhD in Technical Sciences, CEO of Digital Forensic Laboratory

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, 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

Dr. of Philosophy, Senior Research Fellow RAS INION, Professor, MGIMO University, Professor, Higher School of Economics, Honorary President, Russian Political Science Association

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

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

Ph.D., Professor of Political Ideas and Institutions, Università degli Studi Guglielmo Marconi, Former British diplomat

PhD, Applied Policy Research Institute of Armenia (APRI Armenia)

Ph.D, Vice-Rector for HR, Associate professor at the Department of Diplomacy, MGIMO University

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

Political Scientist

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

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

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

Professor, National University of Villa Maria, Argentina

Professor of Higher Education at the University of Oxford, Director of the ESRC/OFSRE Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE), Editor-in-Chief of Higher Education, Professorial Associate of the Melbourne Centre for Study of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne, and Lead Researcher at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow

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

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

Research Analyst at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat)

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

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

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

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

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

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