Experts

Doctor of History, Professor, Ural Federal University

Deputy Speaker of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Doctor of War Science, Professor, Academician of the Russian Academy of War Sciences

Ph.D. in Political Science, Leading Research Fellow, Head of the Center for Italian Studies, Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Associate Professor at the National Research University Higher School of Economics

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

Scientific director of the Lobachevsky Sate University of Nizhny Novgorod

PhD in History, Leading Researcher at RAS Institute for African Studies

Ph.D. (History), Head of the Department of Ethno-Political Conflict at the Institute of Europe under the Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D., Leading Expert, Military-Political Studies Center, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO)

PhD in Political Science, Senior Lecturer, School of International Relations, Saint Petersburg State University

Dr. of Political Sciences, Head of Black Sea and Mediterranean Studies Centre, Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences; Professor, Higher School of Economics National Research University (HSE University)

PhD in Political Science, Andrew Derbenev is a Researcher at the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, and an Associate Professor in Moscow State Pedagogical University

Chairman of PIR Center, Lieutenant-General (retired), RIAC Vice-president

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), Head of Section of the Asia-Pacific Region Problems, IMEMO RAN

PhD in Political Science, Senior researcher at CEMI RAS

Head, Center for Economic Integration, IDIP RFTA, Research Fellow, Institute for International Economics and Finance, RFTA

Program Coordinator and Website Editor at the Russian International Affairs Council

Director, Institute for the Development of Integration Processes at the Russian Foreign Trade Academy of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation; Senior Research Fellow, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration

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

PhD in History, Head of IMEMO RAN Department, Professor of MGIMO University

Doctor of Philosophy, Professor of the Philosophy Department of the Pacific State University

PhD., HSE Professor

Ph.D., Institute of International Relations and World History, N. I. Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod

PhD in History, Head of the European Union Studies Department, IMEMO RAN

Graduated in Political Science to the Catholic University of the Sacread Heart (Milan)