Experts

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

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

Political Scientist

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

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

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

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

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

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

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

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

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

Ph.D, Head of Chair, Cybernetics and Information Security Department, Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (National Research Nuclear University)

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

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

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

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

Doctor of History, Professor, Ural Federal University

Independent Analyst

Doctor of Political Science, Leading researcher, RAS Institute of Philosophy

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

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

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

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

Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor at the Department of Political Science and Political Management in the Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan

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, Vice-Rector for HR, Associate professor at the Department of Diplomacy, 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