Experts

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

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

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

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

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

RIAC Expert

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

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

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

Independent expert

Correspondent, Expert magazine, Research fellow of the RAS U.S. and Canadian Studies Institute

PhD in History, Caucasus Problems and Regional Security Center at the MGIMO University

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

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

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

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

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

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

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

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

RIAC Expert

Ph.D, Head of Chair, Cybernetics and Information Security Department, Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (National Research Nuclear University)

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

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

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

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

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

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

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

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

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

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