Experts

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

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

PhD in Political Science, RIAC Expert

RIAC Expert

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD in Technical Sciences, CEO of Digital Forensic Laboratory

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

Associate Professor of International Relations (ret.), University of Cyprus, RIAC Expert

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

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

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

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues, RIAC expert

Doctor of History, Professor, Ural Federal University, RIAC Expert

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

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

Ph.D. in History, Research Associate, Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences

Expert at the Institute of the Middle East, graduate of International Institute of Energy Policy and Diplomacy at MGIMO

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

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

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

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

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

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

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

RIAC Expert

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

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

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

Independent Analyst

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

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

Political Scientist

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

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