Experts

Doctor of History, Head of the Political and Military Research Unit at the RAS Institute of USA and Canada Studies

Chief of Moldova Department, Institute of CIS Countries

Secretary-General of the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies

Journalist, Sinologist

Research Fellow, European Leadership Network

Head of the Center for International Security of IMEMO, RAS Full Member, RIAC member

Doctor of History, professor, RAS Full Member, Head of the Center for Asia-Pacific Studies, Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnology of the Peoples of the Far-East, Far-Eastern Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Member

Scientific director of the Lobachevsky Sate University of Nizhny Novgorod

PhD in Political Science, Andrew Derbenev is a Researcher at the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, and an Associate Professor in Moscow State Pedagogical University

Honorary President of the Institute for African Studies of the RAS, RAS Full Member, RIAC Member

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

Leading research worker with the Center for Global Problems at the Institute of International Studies, MGIMO University, professor of linguistic semantics at Moscow State Linguistic University

Professor, National University of Villa Maria, Argentina

Analyst at MGIMO Institute for International Studies (IMI MGIMO)

President of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (1998–2004)

PhD in Economics, MBA, Lead Research Fellow (Center for International Economic Relations Studies), Institute for Finance and Economic Research, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia

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

Ph.D. in Economics, Leading Research Fellow, Center for Korean Studies, Institute of Far Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Ambassador, Senior fellow and distinguished chair in Diplomacy and Security at the RAND Corporation

RIEAS Senior advisor based in Athens, Greece and Associate at the Centre for Strategic Studies, University of Jordan

General Director, International Institute for the Development of Scientific Cooperation (MIRNaS)

Head of Program Education and Science, Deaf-blind Support Fund So-edinenie (Connection)

Independent expert

Ph.D. in Political Science, Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

Head of Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States Affairs, Compatriots Living Abroad, and International Humanitarian Cooperation (Rossotrudnichestvo), RIAC Member

Researcher at Ankara based think-tank International Strategic Research Organization (USAK)

RAS Full Member, RIAC Member

Research Fellow at the Center for Strategic Studies (Azerbaijan)

Research Fellow, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)