Experts

PhD in Economics Vice Dean of International Journalism Department; Associate Professor, Department of the World Economy, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO University) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

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

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

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

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

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

MA, Higher School of Economics, RIAC expert and blogger

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

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

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

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

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

Dr. of Philosophy, Senior Research Fellow RAS INION, Professor, MGIMO University, Professor, Higher School of Economics, Honorary President, Russian Political Science Association

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

Professor, National University of Villa Maria, Argentina

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

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

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

Military Observer Head of the Department of Middle Eastern Conflicts at the Institute of Innovative Development

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

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

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

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

Independent Analyst

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

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

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

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

Doctor of History, Professor, Ural Federal University, RIAC Expert