Experts

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

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

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

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

Political Scientist

PhD in Political Science

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

Independent expert

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

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

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

Independent Analyst

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Correspondent, Expert magazine, Research fellow of the RAS U.S. and Canadian Studies Institute

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

University of Birmingham

Ph.D. in History, Research Associate, Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences

Professor, Doctor of Economics, Head of the Economics Department at the CIS Institute, Leading Research Fellow at the RAS Institute of Economics

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

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

Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor at the Department of Political Science and Political Management in the Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan

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

Doctor of History, Professor, Ural Federal University

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

Editor-in-Chief of the Arsenal of the Fatherland magazine

Research Analyst at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat)

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

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

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

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