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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

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

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

Professor, National University of Villa Maria, Argentina

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

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

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

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

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

Political Scientist

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

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

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

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

PhD in Political Science

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

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

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

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

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

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

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues

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

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

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

Department of Strategic Management of Fuel and Energy Sector, Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

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

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

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

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