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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

Research Fellow at the Center for International Security, Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences, co-founder of the Vatfor project

Ph.D. in Political studies, Middle East expert and Russian foreign policy analyst, MA Global Public Policy, Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota

President of the The Piatigorsky Foundation, RIAC Member

MGIMO University

MA student, National Research University – Higher School of Economics

PhD, Post-doctoral Research Fellow WZB Berlin Social Science Center, Research Fellow Cambridge Central Asia Forum

Ph.D. (History), Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Senior Fellow and Vice President at the Observer Research Foundation

PhD in Political Science, Director of the Centre for Science Diplomacy and Advanced Academic Initiatives, Institute for International Studies of MGIMO University

Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Witology, Chairman of Board of League of Independent Experts

Former Deputy Foreign Minister of Mexico and Founding President of the Mexican Council on Foreign Relations - COMEXI

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

Vice President of the Russian International Affairs Council, Executive Vice President of Etalon Group

Researcher at Ankara based think-tank International Strategic Research Organization (USAK)

Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

PhD in Law, Political Scientist

Academic Supervisor of the Institute of World Military Economy and Strategy at HSE University, RIAC member

Dean of the Faculty of International Relations and Foreign Area Studies of the Institute of History and Archives of RSUH, RIAC member.

Doctor of Political Science, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for the Middle East Studies, Institute of World Economy and International Relations under the Russian Academy of Sciences

Program Director for Europe and Central Asia, International Crisis Group

Former Chairman of Indian Space Research Organization

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

Ph.D. in Political Science and Associate Professor and Distinguished Researcher at the Tsinghua University Technology Innovation Research Centre, and Executive Secretary of the Sino-Russian Research Center for the Digital Economy at Lomonosov Moscow State University

Ph.D. in Political Science, President World Security Network, Berlin

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Head of Defense Studies Department at Armenian Research & Development Institute and editor for New Defense Order. Strategy magazine, Thinker AGBU Project Lead

PhD in Political Science, Philology Faculty of Petersburg Institute of Judaic Studies

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute