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

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

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

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

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

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

Doctor of History, Professor, Ural Federal University

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

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

PhD in Technical Sciences, CEO of Digital Forensic Laboratory

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

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

University of Birmingham

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

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

PhD in Political Science

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

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

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

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

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

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

Associate Professor of International Relations (ret.), University of Cyprus

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

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

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

Ph.D, Vice-Rector for HR, Associate professor at the Department of Diplomacy, MGIMO University

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

Member of the Scientific Council, Chairman of the Religion, Society, and Security Program at the Carnegie Moscow Center

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