Experts

Ph.D. in Political Science, Associate Professor at the Global Politics Department of St. Petersburg State University

Chairman, Supervisory Board, Centre for Strategic and Foreign Policy Studies (Belarus)

Ph.D. in Economics, Director at the Center for Migration Studies; Lead Researcher, Institute of Economic Forecasting of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Deputy Dean of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, Higher School of Economics

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

Junior Research Fellow, Center for Strategic Planning Studies, IMEMO

Doctor of Philological Sciences, Director of the Institute of Far Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor at the Financial University, RIAC Member

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

PhD Candidate and Senior Lecturer at Novosibirsk State University (Russia) and Research Fellow at the Stanford US-Russia Forum (USA)

Employee at the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Cairo, Central Staff of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation in the 2000s, currently works in the oil and gas industry

Master of Science (Econ) from Copenhagen Business School, University degree in Spanish Culture and Languages from University of Copenhagen

Ph.D. in History, Head of India Studies at the Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO, Senior Research Fellow at RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

PhD in international relations, contributor to the German Caucasus Watch

Lead researcher and head of the Peace and Conflict Studies Unit at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) in Moscow

Professor of the Chair of Modern East Department of History, Political Science and Law, Russian State University for the Humanities

Ph.D. in Political Science, Program Manager and Website Editor at the Russian International Affairs Council

Lecturer in Law at University of Aberdeen, Legal Adviser to the IFC Russia Renewable Energy Program

PhD in Chemistry, Chemical Weapons Expert, Former UN inspector in Iraq, Creator of Russian chemical weapons destruction technologies

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

Dr. of Science (Economics), Corresponding Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor, Deputy Director for scientific work, RAS Institute of Europe, RIAC Member

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

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

Founder of the SIKHA Foundation, lecturer at the Tbilisi State University

Ph.D. in Technical Science, Senior Research Fellow, Center for International Security, IMEMO RAS

Vice Chairman - Foreign Relations, Karachi Council on Foreign Relations