Experts

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

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

PhD in Political Science, Associate Professor, Political Science Department, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation

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

Master of Economics, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), Program jointly with UIBE (Beijing): “Russian and China: Economic and Political Trends in Eurasia”

Correspondent, Expert magazine, Research fellow of the RAS U.S. and Canadian Studies Institute

Professor, Doctor of Economics, Head of the Economics Department at the CIS Institute, Leading Research Fellow at the RAS Institute of Economics

RIAC Expert

Military Observer Head of the Department of Middle Eastern Conflicts at the Institute of Innovative Development

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

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 to the People's Republic of China, RIAC Member

PhD in Political Science, Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

RIAC Expert

MA, Higher School of Economics, RIAC expert and blogger

University of Birmingham

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

Independent Analyst

Member of the Scientific Council, Chairman of the Religion, Society, and Security Program at the Carnegie Moscow Center

Expert at the Institute of the Middle East, graduate of International Institute of Energy Policy and Diplomacy at MGIMO

Center for South-East Asia, Australia and Oceania Studies, RAS Institute for Oriental Studies

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

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

Postgraduate at International and European Law Department, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

Vice President of the Russian International Affairs Council, Executive Vice President of Sistema JSFC

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

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

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

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

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

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