Experts

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

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

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

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

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

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

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

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

PhD in History, Caucasus Problems and Regional Security Center at the MGIMO University

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

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

Professor, National University of Villa Maria, Argentina

University of Birmingham

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

Ph.D. in History, Scientific Advisor of The Evgeny Primakov Center for International Cooperation, Senior Research Fellow, Center for the Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies RAS

Master of Economics, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), Program jointly with UIBE (Beijing): “Russian and China: Economic and Political Trends in Eurasia”

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

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

PhD, Senior Lecturer in Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics, Deputy Director of the Princess Dashkova Russia Center, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

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

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

Dr. of Philosophy, Senior Research Fellow RAS INION, Professor, MGIMO University, Professor, Higher School of Economics, Honorary President, Russian Political Science Association

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

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

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

Independent Analyst

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

Editor-in-Chief of the Arsenal of the Fatherland magazine

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

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

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

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues