First Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office

Born in 1960 in Zagorsk (Sergiev Posad), Moscow region

1982: graduated with a degree in history from the Department of Southern and Western Slavs, Historical Faculty, Moscow State University
1982–1996: worked in the Soviet Ministry of Foreign Affairs, then the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
1982–1985: Secretary of the Soviet Consulate General in Karlovy Vary, Czechoslovak Socialist Republic
1985–1988: Attaché at the Soviet Embassy in Prague
1988–1991: Third Secretary, and later Second Secretary in the Secretariat of the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR
1991–1992: First Secretary of the General Secretariat of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the USSR, then the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation
1992–1993: Consul of the Russian Consulate General in Bratislava, Slovakia
1993–1996: Counsellor of the Russian Embassy in Bratislava, Slovakia
1996–2000: Head of the Presidential Press Office, then Head of the Presidential Press and Information Office
2000–2008: Press Attaché of the President of the Russian Federation
12 May 2008: Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office
21 May 2012 onwards: First Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office