Experts

Deputy director and senior fellow with the Europe Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

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

Professor of World Economy and International Affairs Department at Higher School of Economics, Leading Researcher at RAS Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO)

General and Russian History Department of the Higher School of Economics

Doctor of Political Sciences, Head of Center of Socio-Political Studies ISKRAN

Doctor of Political Science, Professor of the Diplomacy Department of the MGIMO University

Political scientist, Moldova

Doctor of Historical Sciences, Leading Researcher at the Institute of Africa of the Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD in history

Co-Chair, Nuclear Threat Initiative; and former U.S. Senator, United States

Academic librarian at the University of East London

Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Social, Political and Economic Problems in the 20th Century, Institute of World History, Russian Academy of Sciences

Assistant Professor at the University of Crete, Department of Political Science

PhD in History, Leading Researcher at RAS Institute for Far Eastern Studies

Professor, Faculty of Economics, Administrative and Social Sciences, Kadir Has University

Subject Matter Expert on Islamic Extremism, and cultures, tribes, and sects of the Middle East and Central Asia, Cultural Intelligence Consultant for a private U.S. firm

Journalist, Sinologist

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

Head of the Department for Disarmament and Conflict Resolution Studies at the Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor of MGIMO-University, RIAC Member

Director of Foreign Policy at the Centre for European Reform

PhD in History, Economic Theory Department of the MGIMO University

Doctor of History, Head of Vishegrad centre at the RAS Institute of Europe, Head of Central and Eastern Europe studies department

Editor in chief, PIRC

Independent Expert

PhD in Technical Sciences, retired Major General

PhD in Political Science, Independent Analyst