Experts

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

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

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD in Economics Vice Dean of International Journalism Department; Associate Professor, Department of the World Economy, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO University) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

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

Editor-in-Chief of the Arsenal of the Fatherland magazine

Chair of the Iran Section, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Associate Professor at the Department of World Economy, MGIMO University

PhD in Philosophy, Senior Lecturer at the HSE University

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

Political Scientist

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

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

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

Professor of Higher Education at the University of Oxford, Director of the ESRC/OFSRE Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE), Editor-in-Chief of Higher Education, Professorial Associate of the Melbourne Centre for Study of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne, and Lead Researcher at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow

Vice President of the Russian International Affairs Council, Executive Vice President of Sistema JSFC

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

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

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

Doctor of Economics, Director of the Far East Institute's Vietnam-ASEAN Research Centre under Russia's Science Academy

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