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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

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

Ph.D. in Philology, Rector of Moscow State Linguistic University, RIAC Member

Expert at the Laboratory of Asia-Pacific International Institutions and Multilateral Cooperation, Far Eastern State University School of Regional and International Studies, Сorrespondent of the Regional News Agency Data

Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

Independent journalist

Professor of World Economy and International Affairs Department at Higher School of Economics, Leading Researcher at RAS Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO)

Masters of Arts candidate at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies

Director of Center for International and European Law, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

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

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

Editor-in-Chief of Russia in Global Affairs magazine, Chairman of the Presidium of the Council for Foreign and Defense Policy, RIAC Member.

Ph.D. in Political Science, Founder, The Institute for Iran-Eurasia Studies (IRAS), Associate Professor at University of Tehran; Iranian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary; Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran

PhD in Political Studies, Associate Professor at European Studies Department, Saint Petersburg State University

Ph.D. in History, Senior Research Associate, RAS Institute of Slavonic Studies

PhD in Philosophy, Adviser to the director of the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies, Asia and Middle East specialist

Doctor of Philosophy, MGIMO Professor

Senior research fellow at MGIMO Institute for International Studies, Center for Euroasian Studies

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues

PhD in Chemistry, Chemical Weapons Expert, Former UN inspector in Iraq, Creator of Russian chemical weapons destruction technologies

PhD in Philosophy, Expert in Latin languages

Assistant Professor at the University of Crete, Department of Political Science

Adviser to the Russian Trade Mission to Finland

Doctor in History, Professor at Department of world politics, Tomsk State University

Doctor of History, Professor of the Higher School of Economics

Doctor of Political Science, Head of the Regional Research Department of Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences

Associate Professor of Sociology & Social Policy, the University of Sydney

Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Social, Political and Economic Problems in the 20th Century, Institute of World History, Russian Academy of Sciences

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