Experts

Ph.D. in History, Research Associate, Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences

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

Dr. of Political Science, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Problems of Transformation of Political Systems and Cultures, World Politics Department at Lomonosov Moscow State University

Ph.D. in History, Senior Researcher at the Department of Central and Eastern European Studies at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues, RIAC expert

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

MA, Higher School of Economics, RIAC expert and blogger

PhD in Political Science, RIAC Expert

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

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

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

Ph.D, Head of Chair, Cybernetics and Information Security Department, Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (National Research Nuclear University)

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

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

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

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

PhD, Applied Policy Research Institute of Armenia (APRI Armenia)

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

PhD in Political Science; Associate Professor of the Department of Integration Processes, Senior Researcher at IMI MGIMO; Senior Researcher at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Expert

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

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 the Arsenal of the Fatherland magazine

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

PhD in History, Professor at Chair of Theory and History of International Relations, Boris Yeltsin Urals Federal University

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

Doctor of Economics, Director of the Far East Institute's Vietnam-ASEAN Research Centre under Russia's Science Academy, RIAC Expert

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

PhD in Technical Sciences, CEO of Digital Forensic Laboratory

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

PhD in Economics, Associate Professor of the World Economy Department, Academic Head of the World Economy Undergraduate Program at HSE- University, RIAC expert

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

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