Experts

MENA Program Director, International Crisis Group (ICG)

Ph.D in History, Assistant professor of the Chair of International Relations and Diplomacy at the Moscow Humanitarian University

PhD fellow at the Chair of International Law, PFUR Law School

Doctor of Philological Sciences, Director of the Institute of Far Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor at the Financial University, RIAC Member

Scientific director of the Lobachevsky Sate University of Nizhny Novgorod

PhD in Economics, Associate Professor, Deputy Director of the Institute of Demography, HSE

Doctor of History, Head of the Research Center of International Relations, RAS Institute of Sociology

Research assistant at ISPI for the Migration Programme

Employee at the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Cairo, Central Staff of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation in the 2000s, currently works in the oil and gas industry

Ph.D. in Political studies, Middle East expert and Russian foreign policy analyst, MA Global Public Policy, Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota

D.Sc. (Philosophy), professor, Head of the Chair of Political Governance, Political Science Department, St. Petersburg State University

PhD in Economics, Academic Secretary of RAS Institute for Latin American Studies

PhD in Political Science and Law, Associate Professor, Presidential Academy of National Economy (RANEPA)

PhD (Political Science), Leading Researcher, Head, Centre for Sociological and Political Sciences Studies, Institute for African Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Deputy Director-General, Institute of Energy Strategy

Senior Officer, International Arctic The Pew Charitable Trusts

Professor of the Chair of Modern East Department of History, Political Science and Law, Russian State University for the Humanities

Doctor of Political Science, Deputy Director of the RAS Institute of Latin America

PhD, Economics. Center for Military and Industrial Policy Institute for US and Canadian Studies

Mexico's Ambassador to the Russian Federation

PhD in history

Expert at the Middle East Institute

Head of the ICRC Regional Delegation for the Russian Federation and Belarus

Doctor of Economics, Director of the Center for Human Demography and Ecology, RAS Institute of Economic Forecasting

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