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

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Research Analyst at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat)

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

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

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Vice President of the Russian International Affairs Council, Executive Vice President of Etalon Group

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

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

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

Ph.D. in Political Science, Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

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

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

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the People's Republic of China, RIAC Member

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

Dr. of Philosophy, Senior Research Fellow RAS INION, Professor, MGIMO University, Professor, Higher School of Economics, Honorary President, Russian Political Science Association

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

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

CEO & President of The EastWest 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

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

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

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

University of Birmingham

Doctor of Political Science, Deputy Director of the RAS Institute of Latin America

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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