Experts

MA, Higher School of Economics, RIAC expert and blogger

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

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

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

Independent expert

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

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

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

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

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

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

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

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

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

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

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

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

PhD in Political Science, RIAC Expert

University of Birmingham

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

Center for South-East Asia, Australia and Oceania Studies, RAS Institute for Oriental Studies

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

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

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

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

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

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

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

RIAC Expert

RIAC Expert

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

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

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

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