Baatr KITINOV is the Consultant of
the Assistant of Vice-Speaker of Council of Federation (Parliament) of Russian
Federation, member of some scientific centres of Moscow State University, and a
Visiting Lecturer of Calgary University (Calgary, Alberta, Canada). Baatr
Kitinov has a master's degree of Science (History) from Kalmyk State University
and a Ph.D. in history of religion from the Institute of Asian and African
States of Moscow State University. He participated in many Russian and foreign
conferences and symposiums on Buddhism, other religions, ecology and sustainable
development of local and global systems and societies, geopolitics of Russia,
conflicts and wars, the national security. He is completing a dissertation on 'The
Caspian Region: Ideology and Politics'.