Experts

Research Fellow at the Department of Modern History of Central and Southeast Europe, Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Head of Research, Center for Situational Analysis at RAS, member of the Directorate of IMEMO RAS, RAS Full Member, RIAC Member

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

PhD in Political Science, Director of the Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies,HSE University, RIAC Member

Lt. General, Strategic Advisor, Synergia Foundation

Director of the MGIMO Centre for Sustainable Development, RIAC Member

PhD in Political Science, EU and CE policy department of the Institute of European Studies at MGIMO University

President of Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia, RIAC member.

Head of the Mongolia Unit, Senior Researcher at the Korea and Mongolia Division, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Doctor of Economics, Professor of Oriental Studies, Director of the Asian strategy center at the Institute of Economics of the Russian Academy of Sciences

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

Researcher at the Center for Central Asian Studies of the Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Lecturer in the School of International Affairs at the Higher School of Economics

Candidate of Political Sciences, European Integration Faculty, MGIMO-University

Vice Chair, Nuclear Threat Initiative; and former Secretary of State for Defence, United Kingdom

Freelance reporter based in Kolkata

Ph.D in Political Science, Foreign Affairs Analyst

Independent Expert

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

Ph.D. (Hist.), Senior Research Fellow, Research Fellow of the Center for Development and Security Studies, Faculty of World Politics, Moscow State University

PhD in History, expert at the Institute of Strategic Estimates and Analysis, Assistant Professor at the Higher School of Economics

Senior Research Fellow at MGIMO University, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Far Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Professor, Doctor of Political Sciences, Candidate of Economic Sciences, Head of the Department of Theory and History of International Relations, RUDN

Ph.D. in International Relations, Deputy Director of Institute for Iran & Eurasia Studies (IRAS), Lecturer at University of Tehran

PhD in Philology, Associate professor, Mass-Media Institute, Russian State University for the Humanities

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and Sociology of Political Processes, Faculty of Sociology, MSU