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PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

MA, Higher School of Economics, RIAC expert and blogger

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

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

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

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

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

Political Scientist

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

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

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

PhD in Political Science, RIAC Expert

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

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

Ph.D. in diplomatic history, Deputy Director and Senior Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program

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

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

Associate Professor of International Relations (ret.), University of Cyprus, RIAC Expert

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

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

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

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

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

PhD in Political Science, Associate Professor, Political Science Department, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation

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

RIAC Expert

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

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

RIAC Expert

PhD in Economics, Associate Professor of the World Economy Department, Academic Head of the World Economy Undergraduate Program at HSE- University, RIAC expert

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

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences