Experts

Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee for Foreign Affairs of Georgia, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia, former Chairman of the National Security Council of Georgia

Academic Director, SKOLKOVO Institute for Emerging Market Studies

PhD in History, Deputy Dean of the MGIMO University

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

Independent journalist

PhD in history, Department of Modern History and Socio-Political issues of Central and South Eastern European Countries, RAS Institute of Slavonic Studies

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

Doctor of Economics, Head of Department of Economic Research, RAS Institute for Oriental Studies

Third Secretary, RF Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Ph.D. in History, Associate Professor at the Department of Jewish Studies, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University; Researcher at the Department for the Study of Israel and Jewish Communities of the RAS

PhD in History, Sector Head at RAS Institute of World Economy and International Relations

Ph.D. in Political Science, Leading Research Fellow, Head of the Center for Italian Studies, Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Associate Professor at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, RIAC Expert

President of the The Piatigorsky Foundation, RIAC Member

Doctor of Political Science, Deputy Director of the RAS Institute of Latin America

PhD, Foundation Fellow in the Australian Studies Institute at Australian National University, RIAC Expert

Head of Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States Affairs, Compatriots Living Abroad, and International Humanitarian Cooperation (Rossotrudnichestvo), RIAC Member

PhD in History, Political Studies Center of the RAS Institute of Economics

PhD in History, senior research fellow, Center for Post-Soviet Studies, Institute of Economics, RAS; associate professor, Department of Regional Issues in Global Politics, Lomonosov Moscow State University; RIAC expert

Doctor of History, Director of the Center for the Study of the Contemporary Balkan crisis of the RAS Institute of Slavic Studies, Academician of the Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences

Associate Professor of International Relations, Koç University (Turkey)

Ph.D. candidate in Slavic and Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University

Doctor of History, Head of the Department of Oriental Studies of the MGIMO University, RIAC expert

PhD., HSE Professor

Research Fellow, European Leadership Network

Ph.D., Senior researcher at IMEMO, Russian Academy of sciences

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