Experts

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

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

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

Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor at the Department of World Politics, Faculty of International Relations, Director of World Politics Master’s Program, St. Petersburg State University

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

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

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD, Senior Lecturer in Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics, Deputy Director of the Princess Dashkova Russia Center, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

Independent Analyst

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

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

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

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues

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

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

Doctor of History, Professor, Ural Federal University

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

Ph.D in History, Leading Research Fellow at MGIMO University, Editor-in-Chief of International Analytics Magazine

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

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

Ph.D, Vice-Rector for HR, Associate professor at the Department of Diplomacy, MGIMO University

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

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

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

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

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

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

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

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

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

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

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

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS