Experts

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

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

Ph.D. in History, Full State Counsellor of the Russian Federation, 3rd class; expert on Syria, Eastern Mediterranean and the Gulf

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

University of Birmingham

PhD in History, Professor at Chair of Theory and History of International Relations, Boris Yeltsin Urals Federal University

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

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

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

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

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

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

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

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

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

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

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

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

PhD in History, Caucasus Problems and Regional Security Center at the MGIMO University

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

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

PhD in Economics, Associate Professor of the World Economy Department, Academic Head of the World Economy Undergraduate Program at HSE- University

Correspondent, Expert magazine, Research fellow of the RAS U.S. and Canadian Studies Institute

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

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

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

Independent expert

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

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

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

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

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