Experts

Ph.D. in Political Science, Associate Professor at the Department of International Relations, Diplomatic Academy of MFA, Russia

PhD in Political Science, associate professor at the School of World Political Processes, research associate at the Center for Post-Soviet Studies, MGIMO University

Honorary President of the Non-Governmental Organization "Association of Euro-Atlantic Cooperation", Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Senior Research Fellow of the Sasakawa Peace Foundation

Research Fellow, Center for Social and Political Studies, IDIP RFTA

PhD in Political Science, Political Theory Department of the MGIMO University

Program Coordinator at the Russian International Affairs Council

PIR Center Director

Master of International Affairs (Texas A&M University, 2015)

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

Editor-in-Chief of Russia Today TV channel, editor-in-chief of international news agency "Rossiya Segodnya"

Doctor of International Law, Professor, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, Rector of the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Chief of Moldova Department, Institute of CIS Countries

Emeritus Professor, The University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra

Doctor of Science, Programme Director of the Valdai Discussion Club; Academic supervisor of the Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies, HSE University, RIAC Member

Research Fellow at the Center for International Security, Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences, co-founder of the Vatfor project, RIAC Expert

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

Doctor of Political Science, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for the Middle East Studies, Institute of World Economy and International Relations under the Russian Academy of Sciences

Foreign Policy Analyst, Assistant researcher, Forum on Geopolitics, University of Cambridge

Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, School of Asian Studies, National Research University Higher School of Economics

Scientific director of the Lobachevsky Sate University of Nizhny Novgorod

Senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation

PhD in History, Post-Soviet Studies Center at the MGIMO University

Doctor of Philosophy, Professor of the Philosophy Department of the Pacific State University

Independent Expert

Ph.D. in Political Science, Research Fellow at the Faculty of Political Science, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Senior Lecturer, Department of International Economic Relations and External Economic Links, MGIMO University