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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 Economics, Associate Professor, Deputy Director of the Institute of Demography, HSE

PhD in Technical Sciences, retired Major General, RIAC expert

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

Chief Research Fellow of the RAS Vavilov Institute of Natural History and Technology, RAS Corresponding Member, RIAC Member

Ph.D. in History, Assistant Professor at the University of Nottingham (Malaysia), RIAC expert

Retired Vice-admiral, RIAC expert

Ph.D. in History, Academic Director of the Russian International Affairs Council, RIAC Member

Ph.D. in Law, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Legislation and Comparative Law under the Government of the Russian Federation

Doctor of pedagogical Sciences, professor, member of the Russian Academy of Education, RIAC member

Analyst on Russia and its Middle East policy, MPhil International Relations, University of Cambridge, RIAC expert

Doctor of History, Professor of Russian University of Peoples’ Friendship, Institute of African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Geopolitical Analyst and Commentator

PhD in History, Deputy Dean of the History Faculty, Moscow State University, RIAC expert

PhD in Political Science, Research Fellow at the Center for Political Studies, RAS Institute of Latin America

Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the European Union

President, Chairman of the Board of Sberbank of Russia

Senior vice president for Europe, Eurasia, and the Arctic and director of the Europe Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, D.C.

Doctor of Philosophy, Head of the Center for British Studies at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IE RAS)

Senior Lecturer at the Department of Social Sciences, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Research Fellow at the Center of Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC expert

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

Independent Analysts, Energy consultant, eXelen srl

Director of Foreign Policy at the Centre for European Reform

Editor-in-Chief of Russia in Global Affairs magazine, Chairman of the Presidium of the Council for Foreign and Defense Policy, RIAC Member.

Middle East expert and Russian foreign policy analyst, MSc Global Public Policy, Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota. PhD candidate, RIAC expert.

PhD Candidate in International Relations, specialist in Russian and Eurasian Affairs, Turkey

IE Business School in Madrid Graduate, MGIMO-University Graduate

Ph.D. in Political Science, Research Fellow at the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Director of the Emerging Technologies and Global Security Project at PIR-Center, RIAC expert

President, Society of Caucasian Studies Experts