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Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

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

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

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

Doctor of History, Professor, Ural Federal University

University of Birmingham

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Professor, National University of Villa Maria, Argentina

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

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

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

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

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues

Director of the Institute of Asia and Africa of MSU , RIAC Member

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

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

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

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

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

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

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

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

PhD in Political Science

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

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

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

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