Experts

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

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

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

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

Professor, National University of Villa Maria, Argentina

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

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

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

Political Scientist

Ph.D. in History, Research Associate, Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

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

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

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

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

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

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

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