Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Federation Council. In the period 1984-1998, he promoted from Embassy Duty Officer to Deputy Director of the Russian Foreign Ministry. He was a member of the group of advisers of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. In 1998-1999, he was assistant, then Deputy Head of the Secretariat of the Prime Minister, responsible for the unit of international issues. From 1999 to 2012, he was Deputy of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation. In the 2004-2011 years, he was Chairman of the State Duma International Affairs and Head of the Russian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). He was appointed as Head of the Russian Cooperation and Russian President’s Special Envoy for relations with CIS member-states in 2012. In 1984 he graduated from Moscow State Institute of International Relations.
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