Experts

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

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, RIAC Expert

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

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

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

Professor, National University of Villa Maria, Argentina

Postgraduate at International and European Law Department, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

Vice President of the Russian International Affairs Council, Executive Vice President of Sistema JSFC

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

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

Doctor of Economics, Professor of Foreign Relations Department at St. Petersburg State University, RIAC Expert

Doctor of Economics, Director of the Far East Institute's Vietnam-ASEAN Research Centre under Russia's Science Academy, RIAC Expert

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

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

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

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

Correspondent, Expert magazine, Research fellow of the RAS U.S. and Canadian Studies Institute

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

RIAC Expert

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

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

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

RIAC Expert

University of Birmingham

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

Doctor of History, Professor, Ural Federal University, RIAC Expert

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

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues, RIAC expert

Political Scientist

Ph.D. in History, Full State Counsellor of the Russian Federation, 3rd class; Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Oriental Studies under the Russian Academy of Sciences; Lecturer at MGIMO University; expert on Syria, Eastern Mediterranean and the Gulf, RIAC Expert

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

MA, Higher School of Economics, RIAC expert and blogger