Experts

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

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

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

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

PhD in Political Science; Associate Professor of the Department of Integration Processes, Senior Researcher at IMI MGIMO; Senior Researcher at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD in Economics Vice Dean of International Journalism Department; Associate Professor, Department of the World Economy, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO University) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

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

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

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

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

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

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

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

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

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

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

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

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

Vice President of the Russian International Affairs Council, Executive Vice President of Sistema JSFC

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

Independent Analyst

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

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

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

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

Political Scientist

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

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

Doctor of Political Science, Expert at the Institute of Oriental studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, and a Professor in the Department of Oriental Studies in the Russian State University for Humanities

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

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