Experts

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

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

RIAC Expert

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

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

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

MA, Higher School of Economics, RIAC expert and blogger

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

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

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

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

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

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

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

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

RIAC Expert

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

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

Independent Analyst

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation. Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Foreign Affairs

RIAC Expert

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

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

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

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

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

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

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

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

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

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

Independent expert