Experts

Former senior Australian diplomat

PhD in Political Science, Independent expert

Chairman of the Federation Council Commission on Information Policy and Media Relations, RIAC Member

PhD in History, Leading Researcher at RAS Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies

PhD in Political Science, head of the post-Soviet countries’ economic development section at the Institute of Economics, RAS

Program Coordinator at the Russian International Affairs Council

Former First Deputy Chief of the Military Science Department, Russian Armed Forces General Staff

PhD in History, Sector Head at RAS Institute of World Economy and International Relations

Ph.D. in Political Science, Head of the Center for Global Studies & International Relations at the Diplomatic Academy under the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

PhD, Adjunct Lecturer, American University of Armenia

Independent Analyst

Research Fellow, Center for Military and Political Research, RAS Institute of U.S. and Canadian Studies

Doctor of History, Leading Expert in the MGIMO ASEAN Centre

Senior researcher at the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, the Institute of Oriental Studies, RAS, associate professor at People’s Friendship University of Russia

Post-graduate student in the Russia in the Asia-Pacific Region: Politics, Economy, Security international educational program at the Far Eastern State University

Ph.D, Vice-Rector for HR, Associate professor at the Department of Diplomacy, MGIMO University

Editor of Russian Information Agency “Novosti” (RIANOVOSTI)

PhD in Political Science, Research Centre for International and Regional Politics (Saint-Petersburg), Project Coordinator, Euroacademy (Tallinn), professor

PhD Professor, University of the Philippines (ret.), Executive Director, Center for Political and Democratic Reforms, Inc.

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

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

Founder of the SIKHA Foundation, lecturer at the Tbilisi State University

Ph.D. from Duisburg University, Senior Advisor of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs / Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP)

Independent Analyst

PhD in Law, MGIMO University

Honorary President of the Institute for African Studies of the RAS, RAS Full Member, RIAC Member

Cand.Sc.(Ped.), Junior Research Fellow, Moscow Lomonosov University

PhD in Political Science, Department of International Issues Applied Analysis of the MGIMO University

Vice Admiral, United States Coast Guard (retired)

PhD in History, Research Fellow with the Crisis Society Study Centre

PhD in Philosophy, Expert in Latin languages

PhD in international relations, contributor to the German Caucasus Watch