Experts

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

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

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

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

Independent Analyst

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

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

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

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

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

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

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

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

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

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

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

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues

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

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

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 Political Science, Expert at the Institute of Oriental studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, and a Professor in the Department of Oriental Studies in the Russian State University for Humanities

University of Birmingham

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

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

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

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

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

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger