Experts

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor at the Department of Political Science and Political Management in the Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

Political Scientist

PhD in Political Science; Associate Professor of the Department of Integration Processes, Senior Researcher at IMI MGIMO; Senior Researcher at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D. in History, Research Associate, Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences

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 Sciences, Professor at the Department of World Politics, Faculty of International Relations, Director of World Politics Master’s Program, St. Petersburg State University

Ph.D. in History, Full State Counsellor of the Russian Federation, 3rd class; expert on Syria, Eastern Mediterranean and the Gulf

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

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

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

Doctor of History, Professor, Ural Federal University

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 Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

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

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

Research Analyst at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat)

Independent expert

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

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

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

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

Dr. of Philosophy, Senior Research Fellow RAS INION, Professor, MGIMO University, Professor, Higher School of Economics, Honorary President, Russian Political Science Association

PhD in Technical Sciences, CEO of Digital Forensic Laboratory

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

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

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

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

Director of the Institute of Asia and Africa of MSU , RIAC Member