Experts

President of World Russian Press Foundation (WARP Foundation), professor, RIAC member

Former Deputy National Security Advisor and Former Ambassador of the Republic of India to the Russian Federation

President of Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia, RIAC member.

Russian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, RIAC Member, RIAC Vice-President

PhD in Philosophy, Adviser to the director of the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies, Asia and Middle East specialist, RIAC expert

PhD in Political Science, associate professor at the School of World Political Processes, research associate at the Center for Post-Soviet Studies, MGIMO University

Head of Research, Center for Situational Analysis at RAS, member of the Directorate of IMEMO RAS, RAS Full Member, RIAC Member

Doctor of History, Head of Center for the Middle East Studies of the IMEMO, Professor of the Oriental Studies Department of the MGIMO University, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies of the Institute of Oriental Studiesof the Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Member

Research Assistant, Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies (CCEIS) at the Higher School of Economics National Research University (HSE University)

PhD University of Cambridge, Researcher, Centre for Energy, Climate and Environmental Law, University of Eastern Finland; consultant at the International Institute for Sustainable Development

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

Director of the Department for Multilateral Economic Cooperation and Special Projects, Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

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

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

PhD in Philosophy, Expert in Latin languages

Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee for Foreign Affairs of Georgia, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia, former Chairman of the National Security Council of Georgia

Vice Chairman - Foreign Relations, Karachi Council on Foreign Relations

PhD in Economics, Senior Research Fellow, Buryatia Scientific Centre, Siberian Regional Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D. in History, Senior Researcher at SIPRI, RIAC Expert

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

PhD in History, Professor at Chair of Theory and History of International Relations, Boris Yeltsin Urals Federal University

Co-chairman of Polish-Russian Group on Difficult Matters, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland

New Delhi based Journalist & Eurasia Analyst

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

Director of International and Geo-Political Studies at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat), affiliated associate professor of economics at George Mason University, USA

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

Research Fellow at the French Institute of International Relations (IFRI)

Professor of Foreign Regions Chair at Russian State University for Humanities, Expert on history of CEE countries