Experts

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

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

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

Member of the Scientific Council, Chairman of the Religion, Society, and Security Program at the Carnegie Moscow Center

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

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

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

University of Birmingham

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

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

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

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

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

Director of the Institute of Asia and Africa of MSU , RIAC Member

Professor, National University of Villa Maria, Argentina

Academic Supervisor of Social Sciences Department at Higher School of Economics, Professor, RIAC Member.

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

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

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

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

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

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor at the Department of Political Science and Political Management in the Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan

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

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

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

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

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

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

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

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh