Experts

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, Leading Research Fellow at MGIMO University, Editor-in-Chief of International Analytics Magazine

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

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

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

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

Ph.D. in History, Full State Counsellor of the Russian Federation, 3rd class; expert on Syria, Eastern Mediterranean and the Gulf, Associate Professor of the Department of International Business at the Financial University Under the Government of the Russian Federation

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

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

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

Independent Analyst

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

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

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

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

Independent Analyst

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

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

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

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

Ph.D. in Political Science, Head of the Asia and Eurasia Program at the Russian International Affairs Council

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

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

PhD in Political Science

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

Professor of Higher Education at the University of Oxford, Director of the ESRC/OFSRE Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE), Editor-in-Chief of Higher Education, Professorial Associate of the Melbourne Centre for Study of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne, and Lead Researcher at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow

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

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

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

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

PhD in Philosophy, Senior Lecturer at the HSE University

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

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung