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Research Analyst Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut

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

Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of Russia, Press Secretary of the President

Ph.D. in History, RIAC Acting Director of Programs

Counselor of the National Committee for BRICS Research

PhD in Law, Associate Transparency International-R lawyer, Assistant Professor of the Moscow State Law Academy

Ph.D., senior researcher, Russia – China Centre, RAS Far East Institute

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

A.B. Political Science, University of Chicago, MA candidate at the University of Western Australia

Doctor of Political Science, Professor of the Diplomacy Department of the MGIMO University

Doctor of History, Chief Researcher at RAS Institute for Far Eastern Studies, RIAC Member

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

IE Business School in Madrid Graduate, MGIMO-University Graduate

PhD of Political Science, Research Fellow at Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D., Associate Director of and Research Professor at the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES), Elliott School of International Affairs, The George Washington University

Ph.D. in Economics, Senior Researcher at the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Scientific Director of the RAS Miklukho-Maklai Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, RAS Full Member

Research Fellow of the Euro-Atlantic Security Center at MGIMO University

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

Vice Admiral, United States Coast Guard (retired)

Assistant researcher at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat)

Chairman, Supervisory Board, Centre for Strategic and Foreign Policy Studies (Belarus)

Ph.D. (History), Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences