Sergei Karaganov, a Kremlin advisor and a dean at Moscow's Higher School of Economics, argues that the survival not just of the ruling regime, but of Russia itself, is at stake: "This raises the bets much higher than those of Western partners".
Presidential advisor Yury Biryukov wrote on his Facebook page that Kiev's troops near Donetsk had received an order at 6am to "open concentrated fire on known separatist positions".
One recent example of this would be Martin Ferguson, who after spending six years as the Labor government's resources minister took a job as chairman of APPEA, the peak body for the oil and gas industry (as I've mentioned here before, Abbott advisor and Liberal Party polling guru Mark Textor owns a company that is registered as a lobbyist for APPEA).
Charlotte Vaughan, mental health disability advisor at UCL, offers some expert advice: Has the student told you they feel unwell or have they asked for help?
"Second term is a gear change, because in first term you're making initial friendship groups, bedding down your accommodation and establishing yourself on that course," says Ruth Gibson, a student advisor at Newcastle University.
Another co-author, senior BCG economics advisor Enrique Rueda-Sabater, said: "It is actually a pretty positive story.
Jill Lincoln, a student advisor at Newcastle University, says: "A lot of students suffer in silence, particularly at stressful points in the year like exam times, and they think that there's nobody to turn to.
Jesselyn Radack, a former Justice Department ethics advisor who is now a director with the Government Accountability Project, read a statement from Snowden to the crowd.
Then: Randol was the senior environmental advisor for Exxon Corporation, based in Washington DC.
He represents Peabody Energy on the Southern States Energy Board and is an advisor to oil and gas developer Green Century Resources.
Another example of the revolving lobby door in action is Stephen Galilee, a former advisor to several Liberal Party politicians (including Tony Abbott and the now Premier of New South Wales Mike Baird) who now heads the New South Wales Minerals Council representing the interests of coal miners.
