Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation since 2011, in charge of the relations with Asian countries. Between 2009 and 2011, he was Head of the First Asia Department of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and, from 2006 to 2009, counselor at the embassy of the Russian Federation in Beijing. He has worked at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs since 1991. In 1983, he graduated from the Institute of Asian and African Studies of the Lomonosov Moscow State University.
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