Experts

Ph.D. in History, Full State Counsellor of the Russian Federation, 3rd class; expert on Syria, Eastern Mediterranean and the Gulf, Associate Professor of the Department of International Business at the Financial University Under the Government of the Russian Federation

Vice President of the Russian International Affairs Council, Executive Vice President of Etalon Group

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

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

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

Doctor of History, Professor, Ural Federal University

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

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

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

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

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

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

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

Ph.D. in diplomatic history, Deputy Director and Senior Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program

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

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

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

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

PhD in Philosophy, Senior Lecturer at the HSE University

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

PhD in Technical Sciences, CEO of Digital Forensic Laboratory

Doctor of Political Science, Leading researcher, RAS Institute of Philosophy

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

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

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

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

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

PhD in Political Science

Professor, National University of Villa Maria, Argentina