Experts

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

PhD in History, Working Group Coordinator at the Central Eurasia Research Center, RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

Doctor of Political Science, Professor, Head of the Global Political Processes Department of the MGIMO University

PhD Candidate and Senior Lecturer at Novosibirsk State University (Russia) and Research Fellow at the Stanford US-Russia Forum (USA)

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

PhD in History, Chief of Research and Publishing Dept, RAS Oriental Studies Institute

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

Scientific Director of the RAS Institute of Economics, RAS Corresponding Member

MA, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University

Senior Lecturer, Department of International Economic Relations and External Economic Links, MGIMO University

Ph.D. in Engineering Science, Postdoctoral researcher, International Institute of Energy Policy and Diplomacy, MGIMO University

Ph.D. in Political Science, expert at the Centre for Crisis Society Studies (Centero)

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

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

Rector of the Lomonosov Moscow State University, RAS Vice-President, RAS Full Member

Director of International and Geo-Political Studies at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat), affiliated associate professor of economics at George Mason University, USA

Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council

Professor and Chair, Department of International and Comparative Politics American University of Paris

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

Ph.D. in Political Science, Associate Professor at the Global Politics Department of St. Petersburg State University

PhD Professor, University of the Philippines (ret.), Executive Director, Center for Political and Democratic Reforms, Inc.

PhD in Law, Associate Transparency International-R lawyer, Assistant Professor of the Moscow State Law Academy

Doctor of Economics, Professor, Department of International Economic Relations and Foreign Economic Relations, MGIMO University

Research Analyst, Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Programme The International Institute for Strategic Studies

PhD in Engineering, Senior Research Fellow, Head of the CIS Institute Department of Eurasian Integration and SCO Development

Academic Director of the RAS Institute of General History, RAS Full Member, RIAC Member

Postgraduate student, MGIMO University

PhD in history, Department of Modern History and Socio-Political issues of Central and South Eastern European Countries, RAS Institute of Slavonic Studies

PhD in Political Science, Senior Teacher at the Department of European Studies, Saint Petersburg State University

Researcher at the Center for Central Asian Studies of the Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Lecturer in the School of International Affairs at the Higher School of Economics

Doctor of Political Science, Director of the Centre for Comparative Governance Studies, Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies, HSE Campus in St. Petersburg