Experts

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

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

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

PhD in Economics Vice Dean of International Journalism Department; Associate Professor, Department of the World Economy, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO University) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

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

Professor, National University of Villa Maria, Argentina

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

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

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

University of Birmingham

Independent Analyst

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

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

Military Observer Head of the Department of Middle Eastern Conflicts at the Institute of Innovative Development

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

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

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

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

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

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

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

Postgraduate at International and European Law Department, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

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

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

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

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

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

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