Experts

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

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Doctor of History, Professor of the Oriental Studies Department of the MGIMO University

PhD in Economics, Head of Department of Assessment and Coordination of International and Duel Master's Degree Programs, MGIMO-University, MFA of Russia

Ph.D. in Political Science, expert at the Centre for Crisis Society Studies (Centero)

Doctor of Political Science, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for the Middle East Studies, Institute of World Economy and International Relations under the Russian Academy of Sciences

Analyst, IDIP RFTA

Doctor of History, Leading Expert in the MGIMO ASEAN Centre

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Professor and Chair, Department of International and Comparative Politics American University of Paris

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

Associate Professor, Senior researcher at the Сenter for civilizational and regional studies of the Institute of Africa of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Member of the Executive Committee of the World Federation of Scientists (WSWF)

Analyst on Russia and its Middle East policy, MPhil International Relations, University of Cambridge

Senior researcher at the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, the Institute of Oriental Studies, RAS, associate professor at People’s Friendship University of Russia

PhD in Law, MGIMO University

Doctor of Philosophy, Head of the Center for British Studies at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IE RAS)

Ph.D. (Military Sciences), Col. Gen. (Ret.), Research Professor, Advanced National Security Studies Center, Expert Institute, Higher School of Economics National Research University, Moscow

PhD in Politics, Head of the Centre for Analysis of Middle East Conflicts, the RAS Institute for US and Canadian Studies

Economics Expert at Discussion Society Liberal Cub, Belarus

Professor of Foreign Regions Chair at Russian State University for Humanities, Expert on history of CEE countries

Foreign Policy Analyst, Assistant researcher, Forum on Geopolitics, University of Cambridge

PhD in History, senior research fellow, Center for Post-Soviet Studies, Institute of Economics, RAS; associate professor, Department of Regional Issues in Global Politics, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Adviser to the Russian Trade Mission to Finland

PhD in History, RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

Research Analyst, Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Programme The International Institute for Strategic Studies

M.A. Candidate, International Economics and Energy, Resources & Environment, Johns Hopkins University

Co-chairman of Polish-Russian Group on Difficult Matters, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland

MGIMO University

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

Chief Research Fellow of the RAS Vavilov Institute of Natural History and Technology, RAS Corresponding Member, RIAC Member