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

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

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

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

Professor of Higher Education at the University of Oxford, Director of the ESRC/OFSRE Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE), Editor-in-Chief of Higher Education, Professorial Associate of the Melbourne Centre for Study of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne, and Lead Researcher at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow

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

Center for South-East Asia, Australia and Oceania Studies, RAS Institute for Oriental Studies

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

Chair of the Iran Section, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Associate Professor at the Department of World Economy, MGIMO University, RIAC Expert

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

Department of Strategic Management of Fuel and Energy Sector, Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

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

Member of the Scientific Council, Chairman of the Religion, Society, and Security Program at the Carnegie Moscow Center

RIAC Expert

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

Master of Economics, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), Program jointly with UIBE (Beijing): “Russian and China: Economic and Political Trends in Eurasia”

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

Independent Analyst

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

Professor, Doctor of Economics, Head of the Economics Department at the CIS Institute, Leading Research Fellow at the RAS Institute of Economics

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation. Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Foreign Affairs

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

PhD in History, Caucasus Problems and Regional Security Center at the MGIMO University

PhD, Applied Policy Research Institute of Armenia (APRI Armenia)

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

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

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

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member