Experts

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

Dr., Head of the Center for Comparative Eurasia Studies and Surveys, CEASS-Vienna

Doctor of History, Professor, Head of the Black Sea-Mediterranean Research Center of the RAS Instute of Europe

PhD in History, Head of the European Union Studies Department, IMEMO RAN

President of the The Piatigorsky Foundation, RIAC Member

Ph.D. in Economics, Senior Researcher at the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD in Political Science, Philology Faculty of Petersburg Institute of Judaic Studies

Andrei Kelin, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, RIAC Member

Doctor of History, RIAC member

Ph.D. (History), Leading Research Fellow, Institute for Advanced Strategic Studies, HSE University

Ph.D. in History, Deputy Chair of the Post-Soviet Foreign Countries Department at the Russian State University for the Humanities

Doctor of International Law, Professor, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, Deputy Director General of the International Information Agency "Rossiya Segodnya", RIAC Member

Senior Officer, International Arctic The Pew Charitable Trusts

Ph.D., Associate Director of and Research Professor at the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES), Elliott School of International Affairs, The George Washington University

International lawyer, Ph.D. in History, Ph.D. in Law

Doctor of law, Professor, Assistant Rector for Research, Chairman of the Council for the coordination of international and innovation activities of the Kutafin Moscow state law University, RIAC Member

PhD in History, Deputy Dean of the MGIMO University

Director of the Research Institute for European and American Studies based in Athens, Greece

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

Member of the PIR Center Community, independent analyst

Ph.D. in Political studies, Middle East expert and Russian foreign policy analyst, MA Global Public Policy, Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota

Research Fellow at the Center for Trade and Economic Integration at the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, former Philippine Ambassador to the WTO in Geneva

Analyst, IDIP RFTA

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

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

Research Director at the European Leadership Network

PhD in History, Leading Researcher at RAS Institute for Latin American Studies

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