Experts

President of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (1998–2004)

Ambassador of the Republic of Yemen to Russia

PhD in Political Science, Andrew Derbenev is a Researcher at the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, and an Associate Professor in Moscow State Pedagogical University

Doctor of Economics, Professor of Oriental Studies, Director of the Asian strategy center at the Institute of Economics of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Research Fellow, MSU Institute of Information Security Issues, RIAC Expert

PhD in History, Arab and Islamic Studies at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph. D., Assistant Professor of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies of Peking University

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

Senior Fellow and Vice President at the Observer Research Foundation

Geneva School of Diplomacy and International Relations, RIAC Expert

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

Retired Councellor RF Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Dr. of Social Sciences, Professor of the International Journalism Department at MGIMO University, Editor-in-Chief of Polis. Political Research, Russia’s leading journal on political science, senior researcher at IMEMO RAN

Doctor of Economics, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, RIAC Member

Professor of the Diplomacy Department of the MGIMO University, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, Member of the Council of the Federation, RIAC Member

Ph.D. (Hist.), Senior Research Fellow, Research Fellow of the Center for Development and Security Studies, Faculty of World Politics, Moscow State University

Member of the Council of the Federation, RIAC member

Political Analyst

Ph.D. in History, Research affiliate at the Ukrainian Research Institute (Harvard University) and the Center for International and European Studies, Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Deputy Director, Analytical Center Observo, French-Russian Chamber of Commerce

Chairman of the Board of the CREON Group, RIAC Member

PhD of Political Science, Research Fellow at Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), Russian Academy of Sciences

Doctor of War Science, Professor, Academician of the Russian Academy of War Sciences

PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and Sociology of Political Processes, Faculty of Sociology, MSU

Dr. of Economics, Head of the Foreign Economy Policy Sector, RAS Institute of World Economy and International Relations

Ph.D. in History, Senior Research Associate, RAS Institute of Slavonic Studies

Senior Lecturer, Department of International Economic Relations and External Economic Links, MGIMO University

Russian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, RIAC Member

Director of Wider Europe Programme, European Council on Foreign Relations