Experts

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

PhD in Philosophy, Senior Lecturer at the HSE University

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

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

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

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

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

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

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

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

Independent Analyst

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

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

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

PhD in Political Science

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

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

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

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

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

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 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

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

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