Experts

Director, HSE Institute for Educational Studies

PhD in Political Science, EU and CE policy department of the Institute of European Studies at MGIMO University

Ph. D., Assistant Professor of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies of Peking University

PhD in History, Visiting Researcher at Hosai University, Honorable Professor of Yamanashi University (Japan)

Analyst in charge of Former Soviet Union and Balkans Desk at Ce.S.I. Centro Studi Internazionali

President of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (1998–2004)

PhD in Philology; Associate Professor; Department of the Theory of Law and Comparative Legal Science HSE

Doctor of Economy, Professor of MGIMO, Chief Scientific Fellow of the Far East Institute of RAS

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D. in Philology, Rector of Moscow State Linguistic University, RIAC Member

Journalist for The New York Observer, Founder/Director of Deepcor Media Former communications director of the Himalayan Consensus - an NGO based in Kathmandu, Nepal

President of the IMEMO, RAS Full Member, Chairman of the RIAC Scientific Council, RIAC Member.

Director of the Baltic Studies Institute of I. Kant Baltic Federal University

PhD in History, Senior Research Fellow at RAS IMEMO Sector for US Foreign and Domestic Policy

Ambassador (rtd), President, Munich Security Conference Foundation; and former State Secretary, German Federal Foreign Office, Germany

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

Middle East expert and Russian foreign policy analyst, MSc Global Public Policy, Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota. PhD candidate.

Temporary – Assistant Lecturer, Department of International Relations, University of Colombo (Sri Lanka)

Research Fellow, Russian Institute of Strategic Studies (RISS)

PhD in History, Head of the European Union Studies Department, IMEMO RAN

Dual Master in Governance and Global Affairs (MGIMO) and International Relations (LUISS)

PhD in History, Research fellow of the RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

Ph.D. in History, School of International Relations, Saint Petersburg State University

Doctor in Political Science, PhD in History, Professor at School of world politics of MSU

Head of Program Education and Science, Deaf-blind Support Fund So-edinenie (Connection)