Individual Members

Sergei Plekhanov

Chairman of the Committee for International Ties of the Moscow branch of the Russian Writers’ Union

Aleksandr Bessmertnykh

President of the International Foreign Policy Association, Chairman of the Global Council of Foreign Ministers of Foreign Affairs, President of the Alumni Association of MGIMO-University; Viktor Blazheev — Rector of the Kutafin Moscow State Law Academy, RIAC Member

Irina Zviagelskaya

Doctor of History, Head of Center for the Middle East Studies of the IMEMO, Professor of the Oriental Studies Department of the MGIMO University, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies of the Institute of Oriental Studiesof the Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Member

Margarita Simonyan

Editor-in-Chief of Russia Today TV channel, editor-in-chief of international news agency "Rossiya Segodnya"

Roman Berdnikov

Board Member at the PJSC Lenenergo, RIAC Member

Konstantin Kosachev

Deputy Speaker of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Andrey Kolosovsky

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member.

Alexander Vylegzhanin

Doctor of Law, Professor, Head of the Department of International Law, MGIMO University, RIAC Member

Aleksey Maslov

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

Mikhail Shvydkoy

Special Representative of Russian President on International Cultural Cooperation. Ambassador-at-Large. RIAC member.

Vladimir Chizhov

Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the European Union

Anatoly Antonov

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member.

Poll conducted

  1. In your opinion, what are the US long-term goals for Russia?
    U.S. wants to establish partnership relations with Russia on condition that it meets the U.S. requirements  
     33 (31%)
    U.S. wants to deter Russia’s military and political activity  
     30 (28%)
    U.S. wants to dissolve Russia  
     24 (22%)
    U.S. wants to establish alliance relations with Russia under the US conditions to rival China  
     21 (19%)
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