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David Balton

Former Ambassador for Oceans and Fisheries, U.S. Department of State

Veniamin Popov

Russian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, RIAC Member

Thomas Lines

Consultant in Trade and Food Security, and Director of “Green House”

Alexander Zhuravsky

Director of Inter-ethnic relations Department of Ministry of Regional Development of Russia

Vladimir Olenchenko

PhD in Law, Senior Research Fellow, IMEMO RAN

Zbigniew Iwanowski

Doctor of Political Science, Director of Center for Political Studies of the RAS Institute of Latin America, Professor of Global Processes Department at Lomonosov Moscow State University

Igor Ivanov

President of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (1998–2004)

Oleg Krivolapov

Head of the Department of Military-Political Research at the Institute for US and Canadian Studies under the Russian Academy of Sciences

Karsten Riise

Master of Science (Econ) from Copenhagen Business School, University degree in Spanish Culture and Languages from University of Copenhagen

Leonid Gusev

Ph.D. in History, Expert, Institute of International Studies, Moscow State Institute of International Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (MGIMO)

Andrey Baklitskiy

Senior Researcher, Institute for International Studies, MGIMO University; PIR Centre consultant

Eric Ehrmann

Brazilian columnist and RIAC blogger

Valeria Gorbacheva

Counselor of the National Committee for BRICS Research

Mark Entin

Doctor of Science, Professor, Head of the Department of European law, MGIMO-University

Edward Dzhagityan

PhD in Economics, MBA, Lead Research Fellow (Center for International Economic Relations Studies), Institute for Finance and Economic Research, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia

Vadim Voinikov

D.Sc. in Law, Professor, Department of European Law, MGIMO University; Professor, Institute of Management and Territorial Development, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

Olga Butorina

Dr. of Science (Economics), Corresponding Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor, Deputy Director for scientific work, RAS Institute of Europe, RIAC Member

Dmitry Konukhov

Researcher at Energy and Security Center, Eugeny Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations

Stanislav Nikulin

PhD in Philosophy, Film critic

Ruslan Volkov

Employee at the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Cairo, Central Staff of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation in the 2000s, currently works in the oil and gas industry

Ilya Kravchenko

PhD in political science

Lev Sokolshchik

Ph.D. in History, Associate Professor, School of International Regional Studies, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies (CCEIS), Research Fellow, International Laboratory on World Order Studies and the New Regionalism at the Higher School of Economics National Research University (HSE University)

Pavel Koshkin

Ph.D., Senior Fellow of The Institute of U.S. and Canadian Studies at Russian Academy of Sciences

Leonid Karabeshkin

PhD in Political Science, Research Centre for International and Regional Politics (Saint-Petersburg), Project Coordinator, Euroacademy (Tallinn), professor

John Nomikos

Director of the Research Institute for European and American Studies based in Athens, Greece

Andrey Bystritskiy

Chairman of the Board of the Foundation for Development and Support of the Valdai Discussion Club

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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