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Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

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

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

Doctor of Political Science, Expert at the Institute of Oriental studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, and a Professor in the Department of Oriental Studies in the Russian State University for Humanities

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

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

Independent expert

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

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

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

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

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the People's Republic of China, RIAC Member

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

Professor, National University of Villa Maria, Argentina

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

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

PhD in Technical Sciences, CEO of Digital Forensic Laboratory

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

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

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

Expert at the Institute of the Middle East, graduate of International Institute of Energy Policy and Diplomacy at MGIMO

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

Ph.D, Head of Chair, Cybernetics and Information Security Department, Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (National Research Nuclear University)

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

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

University of Birmingham

Doctor of History, Professor, Ural Federal University

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

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

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