Experts

Professor, Doctor of Law; president of the Chair of International Law at the People’s Friendship University of Russia; member of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

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

Head of Department, Deputy Director of the General Office of Eastern-European Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey

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

PhD in Political Science, Independent expert

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

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

Professor of government and politics at George Mason University

PhD in Philology, Associate professor, Mass-Media Institute, Russian State University for the Humanities

Doctor of Economics, Senior Research Fellow and Professor at the Department of World Economy and World Finance, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation

PhD in Political Science, Senior researcher at CEMI RAS

PhD in Political Science, Associate Professor, MGIMO University

Ph.D. in Political Science, Head of the Informational Security Problems Department of the Center for International Security at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor, Corresponding Member of the Academy of Military Science of the Russian Federation

Doctor of Economics, Head of Department of IMEМО RAS, Professor of MGIMO University, RAS Corresponding Member, RIAC Member

MGIMO University, Professor; Program Director of the Valdai International Discussion Club

Doctor of Economics, Leading Research Fellow, RAS Institute for Latin American Studies

PhD in Political Science, Senior Lecturer, School of International Relations, Saint Petersburg State University

PhD in History, Post-Soviet Studies Center at the MGIMO University

Expert at the Middle East Institute

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

MENA Program Director, International Crisis Group (ICG)

President of the Jordan-based Political Studies of the Middle East Center, Founder of the US-based Geostrategic and Media Center

Doctor of Political Science, Deputy Director of the RAS Institute of Latin America

Political Scientist, Coordinator of Kyrgyzstan Analytical Club

Political commentator, researcher and expert on Middle East affairs. President of the Moscow-based International Middle Eastern Studies Club (IMESClub)

President, Society of Caucasian Studies Experts

RIAC Vice-President, President of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Professor of World Economy and International Affairs Department at Higher School of Economics, Leading Researcher at RAS Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO)

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

PhD in Political Science, Director of the EU Political Integration Center at RAS Institute for European Studies