Experts

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

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

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

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

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

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

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, 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, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

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

University of Birmingham

Doctor of History, Professor, Ural Federal University

PhD in History, Professor at Chair of Theory and History of International Relations, Boris Yeltsin Urals Federal University

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues

Doctor of Sciences (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

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

PhD in Political Science

Doctor of Political Science, Deputy Director of the RAS Institute of Latin America

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

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

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

Independent Analyst

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

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

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

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

PhD in Philosophy, Senior Lecturer at the HSE University

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