Experts

Independent journalist, RIAC expert

PhD in Economics, Head of the Production Support Department at Gazpromneft-Sakhalin

President of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (1998–2004)

Doctor of Economics, Leading Research Fellow, RAS Institute for Latin American Studies, RIAC expert

Ph.D., Associate Professor, Deputy Head of the Department of Political Science at the Higher School of Economics National Research University Campus in St. Petersburg, Assistant at the Graduate School of Management, St. Petersburg State University, RIAC Expert

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

PhD in Philosophy, Expert in Latin languages

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

Academic Director of the RAS Institute of General History, RAS Full Member, RIAC Member

PhD in History, Deputy Dean of the History Faculty, Moscow State University, RIAC expert

Head of international contacts and press relations service of the Gorbachev Foundation. Foreign affairs expert and journalist

Ph.D, Senior lecturer at People’s Friendship University of Russia

Brazilian columnist and RIAC blogger

Doctor of Sciences in History, Chair of the Department of Contemporary History of Russia at the Institute of History and Archives of RSUH, RIAC Member

Doctor of History, Professor at MGIMO-University

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

Ph.D. in Political Science, Associate Professor at the Global Politics Department of St. Petersburg State University

Head of Department of Economic Policy and Public-Private Partnership at MGIMO-University, RIAC expert

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

D.Sc., Head of the Center for U.S. Foreign Policy Studies, U.S. and Canadian Studies Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Independent Analyst

Doctor of Political Science, Expert at the Institute of Oriental studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, and a Professor in the Department of Oriental Studies in the Russian State University for Humanities

Head of Department, Deputy Director of the General Office of Eastern-European Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey

Doctor of Political Sciences, Head of Center of Socio-Political Studies ISKRAN

Ph.D, heads the Eastern Europe and Eurasia Research Division at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) in Berlin

PhD in History, Working Group Coordinator at the Central Eurasia Research Center, RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

Chairman of the Executive Committee — Executive Chairman of the CIS

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

Research Fellow & Coordinator West Asia Centre, Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses