Experts

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

Political Scientist

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

Ph.D. in History, Senior Researcher at the Department of Central and Eastern European Studies at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences

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

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

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

Ph.D. in diplomatic history, Deputy Director and Senior Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program

Master of Economics, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), Program jointly with UIBE (Beijing): “Russian and China: Economic and Political Trends in Eurasia”

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

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

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD in Political Science, Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

Ph.D in History, Leading Research Fellow at MGIMO University, Editor-in-Chief of International Analytics Magazine

Doctor of Economics, Director of the Far East Institute's Vietnam-ASEAN Research Centre under Russia's Science Academy

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

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

Doctor of History, Professor, Ural Federal University

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

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

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 Philosophy, Senior Lecturer at the HSE University

Military Observer Head of the Department of Middle Eastern Conflicts at the Institute of Innovative Development

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

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

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

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

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