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

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

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

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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

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

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

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

Department of Strategic Management of Fuel and Energy Sector, Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas

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

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

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

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

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

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

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

University of Birmingham

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the People's Republic of China, RIAC Member

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

PhD in Philosophy, Senior Lecturer at the HSE University

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

PhD in Technical Sciences, CEO of Digital Forensic Laboratory

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

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

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

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

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