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Shchegolev Igor

Shchegolev Igor

Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy to the Central Federal District

Born on November 10, 1965, in Vinnitsa, Ukraine.
1988
Graduated from the Translation Department of the Moscow Maurice Thorez State Institute of Foreign Languages, and then from the German Department of Leipzig University.
1988–1993
Editor of the European Department at the TASS/ITAR-TASS news agency.
1993–1997
ITAR-TASS correspondent in Paris.
After returning to Russia – editor-in-chief of the European Department at ITAR-TASS and deputy director of the ITAR-TASS news service.
1998
Deputy Head of the Government Information Directorate of the Russian Government Office.
1998
Press Secretary to the Russian Prime Minister, and then Head of the Government Information Directorate.
1999
Advisor to the Russian Prime Minister.
2000
Head of the Presidential Press Service.
2002
Head of the Presidential Protocol.
2008
May 12, 2008 – appointed Telecommunications and Mass Communications Minister of the Russian Federation.
2012
Since May 21, 2012 – Aide to the President of the Russian Federation.
2018
Since June 26, 2018 – Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy to the Central Federal District.
Fluent in English, German and French.