Experts

PhD in Political Science, Associate Professor, Political Science Department, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation

PhD in Political Science

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

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

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

Dr. of Political Science, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Problems of Transformation of Political Systems and Cultures, World Politics Department at Lomonosov Moscow State University

Correspondent, Expert magazine, Research fellow of the RAS U.S. and Canadian Studies Institute

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

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

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

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

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

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

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

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

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

Department of Strategic Management of Fuel and Energy Sector, Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Professor, National University of Villa Maria, Argentina

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

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

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

Postgraduate at International and European Law Department, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

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

Military Observer Head of the Department of Middle Eastern Conflicts at the Institute of Innovative Development

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

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