On February 12, 2018, Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) and the Libyan Institute for Advanced Studies (LIAS) conducted a video seminar on the political and economic situation in Libya.
On February 12, 2018, Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) and the Libyan Institute for Advanced Studies (LIAS) conducted a video seminar on the political and economic situation in Libya.
Timur Makhmutov, RIAC Deputy Director of Programs, opened the meeting, noting the importance of the Libyan issue, the timeliness of the discussion, and the urgency of finding different approaches to the organization of societies and states.
Aref Ali Nayed, Director of the Libyan Institute for Advanced Studies, Founder and Director of Kalam Research & Media, was the key speaker of the video seminar. Grigory Lukyanov, Senior Lecturer of the National Research University of the Higher School of Economics (HSE), moderated the meeting.
During the event, RIAC and LIAS experts discussed the characteristic features of organization and functioning of government bodies, local government, and representative institutions at the local level in the context of the ongoing military-political crisis in Libya. The participants reviewed the current state, the possibilities of restoring and developing the existing economic infrastructure in the country, and the role of internal and external factors in these processes.
Elena Alekseenkova, RIAC Program Manager, Ruslan Mamedov, RIAC Program Assistant, Andrey Chuprygin, Senior Lecturer at HSE, Stanislav Mezentsev, Senior Research Fellow at RAS Institute for African Studies and LIAS Representative, Ibragim Ibragimov, Junior Research Fellow at RAS IMEMO, and Dmitry Tarasenko, Junior Research Fellow at RISS, also took part in the meeting.
