Experts

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

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

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

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

Senior research fellow in the Institute of European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, Carleton University, Canada

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

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

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

Political Scientist

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

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

PhD in Political Science

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

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

Doctor of History, Professor, Ural Federal University

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

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

PhD in Technical Sciences, CEO of Digital Forensic Laboratory

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

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

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

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 Political Sciences, Professor at the Department of World Politics, Faculty of International Relations, Director of World Politics Master’s Program, St. Petersburg State University

PhD in Philosophy, Senior Lecturer at the HSE University

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

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

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

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

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, Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

Professor of Higher Education at the University of Oxford, Director of the ESRC/OFSRE Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE), Editor-in-Chief of Higher Education, Professorial Associate of the Melbourne Centre for Study of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne, and Lead Researcher at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow

Director of the Institute of Asia and Africa of MSU , RIAC Member