Experts

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

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

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

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

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

Ph.D. in diplomatic history, Deputy Director and Senior Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program

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

RIAC Expert

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

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

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

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

RIAC Expert

Independent expert

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

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

Political Scientist

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, RIAC Expert

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

Dr. of Political Science, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Problems of Transformation of Political Systems and Cultures, World Politics Department at Lomonosov Moscow State University

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

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

Postgraduate at International and European Law Department, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

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