Experts

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

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

Political Scientist

Ph.D, Vice-Rector for HR, Associate professor at the Department of Diplomacy, MGIMO University

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

Ph.D. in History, Research Associate, Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences

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

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

Professor, Doctor of Economics, Head of the Economics Department at the CIS Institute, Leading Research Fellow at the RAS Institute of Economics

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

Department of Strategic Management of Fuel and Energy Sector, Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas

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

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

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

Independent expert

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

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

Postgraduate at International and European Law Department, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

PhD in Political Science

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

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

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

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

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

PhD, Applied Policy Research Institute of Armenia (APRI Armenia)