Experts

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

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 Technical Sciences, CEO of Digital Forensic Laboratory

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

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

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

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

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

Political Scientist

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

Ph.D in History, Leading Research Fellow at MGIMO University, Editor-in-Chief of International Analytics Magazine

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, 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

Expert at the Institute of the Middle East, graduate of International Institute of Energy Policy and Diplomacy at MGIMO

PhD in Political Science, Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

Independent Analyst

Ph.D. in History, Full State Counsellor of the Russian Federation, 3rd class; expert on Syria, Eastern Mediterranean and the Gulf

PhD in Political Science

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

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

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

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

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

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

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

Independent expert

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