Experts

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

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

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

Dr. of Philosophy, Senior Research Fellow RAS INION, Professor, MGIMO University, Professor, Higher School of Economics, Honorary President, Russian Political Science Association

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

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

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

PhD in Technical Sciences, CEO of Digital Forensic Laboratory

MA, Higher School of Economics, RIAC expert and blogger

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

PhD in History, Caucasus Problems and Regional Security Center at the MGIMO 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

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

Research Analyst at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat)

Ph.D. in diplomatic history, Deputy Director and Senior Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program

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

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

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

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

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

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

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

Independent expert

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

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

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

Director of the Institute of Asia and Africa of MSU , RIAC Member

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

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

Doctor of Economics, Professor of Foreign Relations Department at St. Petersburg State University, RIAC Expert

PhD in Political Science, 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, Vice-Rector for HR, Associate professor at the Department of Diplomacy, MGIMO University

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