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Andrey Bystritskiy

Chairman of the Board of the Foundation for Development and Support of the Valdai Discussion Club

Olga Oliker

Program Director for Europe and Central Asia, International Crisis Group

Sudha Ramachandran

Independent journalist and researcher

Gleb Ivashentsov

Russian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, RIAC Member, RIAC Vice-President

Ilona Stadnik

Lecturer at the Saint Petersburg State University

Ksenia Djalagoniya

Program Coordinator, Website Content Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

Ruslan Mamedov

Ph.D. in History, Scientific Advisor of The Evgeny Primakov Center for International Cooperation, Senior Research Fellow, Center for the Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies RAS

Vladimir Lukin

RIAC member

Anastasia Tolstukhina

Head of the Program (Tech Policy) at the Russian International Affairs Council

Vladimir Koptelov

Retired Councellor RF Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Mark Entin

Doctor of Science, Professor, Head of the Department of European law, MGIMO-University

Pavel Karasev

Research Fellow, MSU Institute of Information Security Issues

Marc Hecker

Research fellow at the French Institute for International Relations (Paris, France)

Maxim Kharkevich

PhD in Political Science, associate professor at the Department of World Politics, MGIMO University

Boris Dolgov

Senior research fellow at the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Joseph E. Fallon

Subject Matter Expert on Islamic Extremism, and cultures, tribes, and sects of the Middle East and Central Asia, Cultural Intelligence Consultant for a private U.S. firm

Tatyana Denisova

Ph.D. in History; Senior Research Fellow and Head of the Center for Tropical African Studies, Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Carlyle A. Thayer

Emeritus Professor, The University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra

Alexander Yermakov

Research Fellow at the Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations under the Russian Academy of Sciences

Yurii Zaycev

PhD in Economics, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Applied Economic Studies, Presidential Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration

Victor Nadein-Raevsky

PhD in Philosophy, Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), Russian Academy of Science

Alexei Chikhachev

PhD in Political Science, Senior Teacher at the Department of European Studies, Saint Petersburg State University

Marlene Laruelle

Ph.D., Associate Director of and Research Professor at the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES), Elliott School of International Affairs, The George Washington University

Nikolay Plotnikov

Dr. of Political Science, Director Research Center, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences; Professor at the Faculty of World Politics, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Yaroslav Lissovolik

RIAC Member

Ilya Topchiy

Independent Expert

Poll conducted

  1. In your opinion, what are the US long-term goals for Russia?
    U.S. wants to establish partnership relations with Russia on condition that it meets the U.S. requirements  
     33 (31%)
    U.S. wants to deter Russia’s military and political activity  
     30 (28%)
    U.S. wants to dissolve Russia  
     24 (22%)
    U.S. wants to establish alliance relations with Russia under the US conditions to rival China  
     21 (19%)
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