Experts

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

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

PhD in Economics Vice Dean of International Journalism Department; Associate Professor, Department of the World Economy, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO University) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

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

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

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

Chair of the Iran Section, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Associate Professor at the Department of World Economy, MGIMO University

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

PhD in Political Science; Associate Professor of the Department of Integration Processes, Senior Researcher at IMI MGIMO; Senior Researcher at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences

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

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

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, Leading Research Fellow at MGIMO University, Editor-in-Chief of International Analytics Magazine

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

Independent Analyst

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

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

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

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

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

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

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India