Experts

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

Editor-in-Chief of the Arsenal of the Fatherland magazine

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, 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

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

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

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

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

Ph.D, Head of Chair, Cybernetics and Information Security Department, Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (National Research Nuclear University)

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

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

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

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

Independent Analyst

Doctor of History, Professor, Ural Federal University

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 diplomatic history, Deputy Director and Senior Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program

Political Scientist

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

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

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

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

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

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

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

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

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

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

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

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

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