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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

PhD in Political Science

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

Co-Chair, Nuclear Threat Initiative; and former U.S. Senator, United States

Ph. D., Assistant Professor of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies of Peking University

Chief of Moldova Department, Institute of CIS Countries

PhD in History, senior research fellow, Center for Post-Soviet Studies, Institute of Economics, RAS; associate professor, Department of Regional Issues in Global Politics, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Ph.D. in Political Science and Associate Professor and Distinguished Researcher at the Tsinghua University Technology Innovation Research Centre, and Executive Secretary of the Sino-Russian Research Center for the Digital Economy at Lomonosov Moscow State University

Research Fellow, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

PhD in Political Science, Deputy Director for Academic Work under the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC member

CEO and co-founder of Hozint - Horizon Intelligence, founder and director of the International Security Observer

Mexico's Ambassador to the Russian Federation

PhD (Political Science), Leading Researcher, Head, Centre for Sociological and Political Sciences Studies, Institute for African Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

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

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

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Associate Professor of International Relations, Koç University (Turkey)

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

Emeritus Professor, The University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra

Lecturer, Department of Asian and African Studies, MGIMO University, Research Fellow, Center for Japanese Studies, RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

PhD in History, Leading Researcher, Department of Korea and Mongolia, RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

Deputy Director for Research at the Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences (IE RAS), Head of the Country Studies Department, Head of the Center for German Studies at the Institute of European Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD in Political Science, Senior researcher at CEMI RAS

PhD in History, Senior Research Associate, Institute for Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Science

PhD in Political Science, Andrew Derbenev is a Researcher at the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, and an Associate Professor in Moscow State Pedagogical University

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka