Andrey Bezrukov, Associate Professor at the Russian Foreign Ministry's Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO);
Maksim Suchkov, expert of the Russian Council on International Affairs, editor of "Al-Monitor" (USA).
Ivan Safranchuk, associate professor of the Department of Global Political Processes of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO-University) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia; member of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy;
Robert Legvold, Marshall D. Shulman Professor Emeritus, Columbia University, will join the discussion via videolink from New York during the event.