Experts

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

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

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

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

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, Applied Policy Research Institute of Armenia (APRI Armenia)

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

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

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

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

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

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

PhD in Political Science, Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

Professor, National University of Villa Maria, Argentina

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

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, RIAC Expert

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Independent expert

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

PhD in History, Professor at Chair of Theory and History of International Relations, Boris Yeltsin Urals Federal University

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

RIAC Expert

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

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

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

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