Experts

Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council, Graduate Student at the MGIMO University

Coordinator at the Reanimation Package of Reforms initiative, Ukraine

PhD in Economics

Deputy Head, CCEIS Asia-Pacific Department, National Research University Higher School of Economics

Dean of the Department of World Economics and World Politics of the National Research University-Higher School of Economics

Ph.D. in History, Full State Counsellor of the Russian Federation, 3rd class; expert on Syria, Eastern Mediterranean and the Gulf, Associate Professor of the Department of International Business at the Financial University Under the Government of the Russian Federation

Dual Master in Governance and Global Affairs (MGIMO) and International Relations (LUISS)

Research Fellow, Center for Military and Political Research, RAS Institute of U.S. and Canadian Studies

President, Chairman of the Board of Sberbank of Russia

Associate Professor of International Relations, Koç University (Turkey)

Independent Analyst

PhD Candidate, Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies, RAS

PhD (History), Research Fellow at School of International Affairs, Higher School of Economics, Moscow

Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Social, Political and Economic Problems in the 20th Century, Institute of World History, Russian Academy of Sciences

Research Fellow of the Department for European Political Studies at Institute of World Economy and International Relations

Geneva School of Diplomacy and International Relations

Research Fellow, Russian Institute of Strategic Studies (RISS)

Head of Department, Deputy Director of the General Office of Eastern-European Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey

Ph.D. (History), Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

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 Oriental Studies, Director of the Asian strategy center at the Institute of Economics of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Former senior Australian diplomat

PhD in Political Science, Research Fellow at the Center for Political Studies, RAS Institute of Latin America

PhD in Law, Senior Research Fellow, IMEMO RAN

MGIMO University

PhD, Head of Computational Genomics, Department of Oncology, University of Oxford, Russia’s Representative in ELIXIR Consortium

Doctor of Political Science, Director of Center for Political Studies of the RAS Institute of Latin America, Professor of Global Processes Department at Lomonosov Moscow State University

Ph.D. in History, Research Fellow at the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, Valdai Discussion Club Expert

Lecturer, Department of Legal Regulation of Fuel and Energy at the International Institute of Energy Policy and Diplomacy, MGIMO University

Associate Professor, Political Science and International Relations, Marmara University (Turkey)

Commentator for International Affairs under the Editor-in-Chief of Nezavisimaya Gazeta

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