Experts

PhD in History, Theology Department, Urals State Mining University

Doctor of History, Head of the Research Center of International Relations, RAS Institute of Sociology

Senior research fellow in the Institute of European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, Carleton University, Canada

Member of the PIR Center Community, independent analyst

Ph.D., Fellow of The Institute of U.S. and Canadian Studies at Russian Academy of Sciences, Former editor-in-chief of Russia Direct, an analytical media outlet

Research Director at the European Leadership Network

Doctor of Political Science, professor at Saint Petersburg state university

Deputy Finance Minister of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Honorary President of the Non-Governmental Organization "Association of Euro-Atlantic Cooperation", Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Professor of government and politics at George Mason University

Ph.D. in History, Expert, Institute of International Studies, Moscow State Institute of International Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (MGIMO)

Independent journalist

Analyst on Russia and its Middle East policy, MPhil International Relations, University of Cambridge

Vice Admiral, United States Coast Guard (retired)

Ph.D. in History, School of International Relations, Saint Petersburg State University

Head of the Joint Department with the RAS Institute of Far Eastern Studies at the HSE University, RIAC member

PhD, Adjunct Lecturer, American University of Armenia

PhD in History, Caucasus Problems and Regional Security Center at the MGIMO University

Doctor of History, professor, RAS Full Member, Head of the Center for Asia-Pacific Studies, Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnology of the Peoples of the Far-East, Far-Eastern Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Member

PhD. in History, Research Fellow, Center for Middle East Studies at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS)

PhD in international relations, contributor to the German Caucasus Watch