Experts

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

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

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

Doctor of Political Science, Leading researcher, RAS Institute of Philosophy

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

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

Military Observer Head of the Department of Middle Eastern Conflicts at the Institute of Innovative Development

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

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

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

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

Department of Strategic Management of Fuel and Energy Sector, Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas

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

Independent expert

Ph.D. in History, Scientific Advisor of The Evgeny Primakov Center for International Cooperation, Senior Research Fellow, Center for the Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies RAS

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

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

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

Independent Analyst

RIAC Expert

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

Political Scientist

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

University of Birmingham

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

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

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

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

RIAC Expert

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

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

Ph.D, Vice-Rector for HR, Associate professor at the Department of Diplomacy, MGIMO University