Experts

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

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

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

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

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

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues

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

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

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

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

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

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

PhD in Economics, Associate Professor of the World Economy Department, Academic Head of the World Economy Undergraduate Program at HSE- University

Professor, National University of Villa Maria, Argentina

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

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

Independent expert

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

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

PhD in Philosophy, Senior Lecturer at the HSE University

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

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

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