Experts

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Chair of the Iran Section, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Associate Professor at the Department of World Economy, MGIMO University

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

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

Independent Analyst

PhD, Applied Policy Research Institute of Armenia (APRI Armenia)

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

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

PhD in Economics Vice Dean of International Journalism Department; Associate Professor, Department of the World Economy, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO University) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

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 Economics, Associate Professor of the World Economy Department, Academic Head of the World Economy Undergraduate Program at HSE- University

PhD in Philosophy, Senior Lecturer at the HSE University

Doctor of Economics, Professor of Foreign Relations Department at St. Petersburg State University

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

PhD in Political Science

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

Dr. of Political Science, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Problems of Transformation of Political Systems and Cultures, World Politics Department at Lomonosov Moscow State University

Doctor of Political Science, Leading researcher, RAS Institute of Philosophy

PhD in Political Science, Associate Professor, Political Science Department, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation

PhD, Senior Lecturer in Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics, Deputy Director of the Princess Dashkova Russia Center, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

Ph.D., Professor of Political Ideas and Institutions, Università degli Studi Guglielmo Marconi, Former British diplomat

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Ph.D. in History, Full State Counsellor of the Russian Federation, 3rd class; expert on Syria, Eastern Mediterranean and the Gulf, Associate Professor of the Department of International Business at the Financial University Under the Government of the Russian Federation

Ph.D. in Political Science, Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

Academic Supervisor of Social Sciences Department at Higher School of Economics, Professor, RIAC Member.

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

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

Independent expert

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

PhD in Political Science; Associate Professor of the Department of Integration Processes, Senior Researcher at IMI MGIMO; Senior Researcher at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD in Technical Sciences, CEO of Digital Forensic Laboratory

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