Experts

Head of the Center for International Security of IMEMO, RAS Full Member, RIAC member

PhD in History, Associate Professor, Department of Post-Soviet Countries, Russian State University for the Humanities, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Post-Soviet and Interregional Studies

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

Deputy Director-General, Institute of Energy Strategy

Independent journalist

President of the International Foreign Policy Association, Chairman of the Global Council of Foreign Ministers of Foreign Affairs, President of the Alumni Association of MGIMO-University; Viktor Blazheev — Rector of the Kutafin Moscow State Law Academy, RIAC Member

General Director, International Institute for the Development of Scientific Cooperation (MIRNaS)

PhD in Political Science, associate professor at the Department of World Politics, MGIMO University

RIAC Member

PhD in History, Senior Research Associate, Institute for Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Science

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

Master of Arts in International Relations (MGIMO University), Independent Analyst

MGIMO-University

Research fellow at the French Institute for International Relations (Paris, France)

Director of International and Geo-Political Studies at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat), affiliated associate professor of economics at George Mason University, USA

Rector of the Urals Federal University named after the First Russian President B.N. Yeltsyn

Ph.D in History, Senior Research Fellow, IMEMO RAN

Lecturer, Department of Asian and African Studies, MGIMO University, Research Fellow, Center for Japanese Studies, RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

Ph.D. in Technical Sciences, Deputy Director of the Energy Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Deputy Director of the Centre for Sustainable Infrastructure Development Research, Institute of Economics and Utility Regulation, Higher School of Economics

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

Dr. of Political Science, Director Research Center, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences; Professor at the Faculty of World Politics, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Holy See and RF Representative to the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, RIAC member

Research Fellow, Center for Military and Political Research, RAS Institute of U.S. and Canadian Studies

President, Synergia Foundation

Chairman of the Executive Committee — Executive Chairman of the CIS

Rector of Moscow State Institute of International Relations (University) of the RF MFA, RAS Full Member, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation