Experts

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

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

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

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

Independent Analyst

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

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

MA, Higher School of Economics, RIAC expert and blogger

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

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

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

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

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

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

Editor-in-Chief of the Arsenal of the Fatherland magazine

Professor, National University of Villa Maria, Argentina

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

Independent expert

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

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

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

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

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

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

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

PhD in Technical Sciences, CEO of Digital Forensic Laboratory

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

RIAC Expert

Dean of Social Sciences Department at Higher School of Economics, Professor, RIAC member.

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

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