Experts

Head of the Department of Military-Political Research at the Institute for US and Canadian Studies under the Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD in Law, PhD of Potsdam University

President of the The Piatigorsky Foundation, RIAC Member

Doctor of History, Head of the Afghanistan Sector of the RAS Institute of Oriental Studies, Professor

Doctor of Economics, Director of the Centre for Energy and Transport of the RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

PhD in Political Science, Senior Lecturer, School of International Relations, Saint Petersburg State University

Dean of the Faculty of International Relations and Foreign Area Studies of the Institute of History and Archives of RSUH, RIAC member.

Geneva School of Diplomacy and International Relations

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

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

Political Analyst

PhD in History, Leading Researcher at RAS Institute for African Studies

Ph.D. in Political Science, Founder, The Institute for Iran-Eurasia Studies (IRAS), Associate Professor at University of Tehran; Iranian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary; Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran

PhD, Post-doctoral Research Fellow WZB Berlin Social Science Center, Research Fellow Cambridge Central Asia Forum

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Holy See and RF Representative to the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, RIAC member

PhD in History, Head of the Korea and Mongolia Department, RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

PhD. in History, Research Fellow, Center for Middle East Studies at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS)

PhD in Economics, Leading Research Associate at the RAS Institute for Latin American Studies

Research Fellow, Russian Institute of Strategic Studies (RISS)

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

Doctor of Political Science, Professor, Head of the Global Political Processes Department of the MGIMO University

PhD, Head of Computational Genomics, Department of Oncology, University of Oxford, Russia’s Representative in ELIXIR Consortium

Program Director for Europe and Central Asia, International Crisis Group