Experts

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

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

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

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

Doctor of History, Professor, Ural Federal University

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

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 Political Science and Political Management in the Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Academic Supervisor of Social Sciences Department at Higher School of Economics, Professor, RIAC Member.

Professor, National University of Villa Maria, Argentina

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

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

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

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Political Scientist

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

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

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

Independent Analyst

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

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

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

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

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

Independent expert

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

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues

PhD in Political Science

Director of the Institute of Asia and Africa of MSU , RIAC Member

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

PhD in Technical Sciences, CEO of Digital Forensic Laboratory