Experts

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

Independent expert

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

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

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

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

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

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

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

MA, Higher School of Economics, RIAC expert and blogger

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

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

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

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

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

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

RIAC Expert

University of Birmingham

Research Analyst at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat)

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

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

PhD in Political Science, RIAC Expert

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

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

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

Independent Analyst

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

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

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

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

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India