Experts

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

President of World Russian Press Foundation (WARP Foundation), professor, RIAC member

Research Fellow

Head of Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States Affairs, Compatriots Living Abroad, and International Humanitarian Cooperation (Rossotrudnichestvo), RIAC Member

Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor at the Department of World Politics, Faculty of International Relations, Director of World Politics Master’s Program, St. Petersburg State University

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

Academic librarian at the University of East London

Adviser to the Russian Trade Mission to Finland

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

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

Chairman of PIR Center, Lieutenant-General (retired), RIAC Vice-president

PhD in Philosophy, Adviser to the director of the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies, Asia and Middle East specialist

Lead researcher and head of the Peace and Conflict Studies Unit at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) in Moscow

Independent Analyst

Honorary President of the Non-Governmental Organization "Association of Euro-Atlantic Cooperation", Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Transitional – Senior Lecturer, Department of International Relations, University of Colombo (Sri Lanka)

Expert for the Center for African Studies, HSE University

Member of the State Duma, the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, Dean of Public Administration Faculty of the Moscow State University, RIAC Member

Editor of Russian Information Agency “Novosti” (RIANOVOSTI)

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

Doctor of Economics, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for US and Canadian Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD in History, Senior Research Fellow at Political Studies Centre, Institute of Latin America, RAS

Former Ambassador of the Republic of India to the Russian Federation

Senior research fellow, RAS Institute of Economic Forecasting

MSc, MGIMO University, field of study International Economic Law

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

Political observer

Head of International Projects Section, Postgraduate of World History Department of M.V. Lomonosov Northern (Arctic) Federal University

Ph.D. in History, Expert, Institute of International Studies, Moscow State Institute of International Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (MGIMO)