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

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PhD in Economics, Head of the Production Support Department at Gazpromneft-Sakhalin

Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Social, Political and Economic Problems in the 20th Century, Institute of World History, Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC expert

Head of Research, The European Geopolitical Forum

Director of the Center for Post-Soviet Studies at the MGIMO University, 2nd Class Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Doctor of History

PhD in history, RIAC Expert

Head of Department, Deputy Director of the General Office of Eastern-European Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey

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

Corresponding Member of RAS, Doctor of Economics, RIAC Member

LLM Public International Law — International Environmental and Energy Law, NRU HSE

Ph.D. in Economics, RIAC Member

Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Witology, Chairman of Board of League of Independent Experts, RIAC Expert

Postdoctoral Researcher, Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding of the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, RIAC Visiting Research Fellow

Ph.D. in Political Science, Associate Professor at the Global Politics Department of St. Petersburg State University

LLM Public International Law — International Environmental and Energy Law

Chief economist at the VEB.RF, RIAC member.

Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation (RF) to the United States of America, RIAC Member.

Director of Foreign Policy at the Centre for European Reform

PhD, Adjunct Lecturer, American University of Armenia

Doctor of History, Head of the Department of Oriental Studies of the MGIMO University, RIAC expert

Master of Science (Econ) from Copenhagen Business School, University degree in Spanish Culture and Languages from University of Copenhagen

Research Assistant, Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies (CCEIS) at the Higher School of Economics National Research University (HSE University)

President of the Center for Systems Analysis and Forecasting, Ukraine

Dean of the Department of World Economics and World Politics of the National Research University-Higher School of Economics