Experts

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

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

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

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

PhD in Political Science

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

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

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

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

Doctor of History, Professor, Ural Federal University

University of Birmingham

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

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

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

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

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

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

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

Independent expert

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

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

Professor, National University of Villa Maria, Argentina

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

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

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

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

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

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

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