Experts

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

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

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

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

University of Birmingham

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 Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

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

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

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

MA, Higher School of Economics, RIAC expert and blogger

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

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

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

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

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

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

Independent expert

Independent Analyst

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

Dean of Social Sciences Department at Higher School of Economics, Professor, RIAC member.

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

Professor, Doctor of Economics, Head of the Economics Department at the CIS Institute, Leading Research Fellow at the RAS Institute of Economics

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

Political Scientist

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

Ph.D. in History, Full State Counsellor of the Russian Federation, 3rd class; Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Oriental Studies under the Russian Academy of Sciences; Lecturer at MGIMO University; expert on Syria, Eastern Mediterranean and the Gulf, RIAC Expert

RIAC Expert

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

RIAC Expert