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Igor Olegovich Schegolev Head of Protocol of the President

Biography

Born on November 10, 1965, in Vinnitsa, Ukrainian SSR.

Education: Moscow State Institute of Foreign Languages, Interpreters and Translators Department, and Leipzig University, Department of Germanic Philology, 1988.

1988-1993: Editor at TASS’ central editorial office for foreign information.

1993-1997: ITAR-TASS correspondent in Paris.

On returning from Paris, ran ITAR-TASS’ editorial office for European countries, later served as deputy head of the agency’s news department.

1998: Deputy head of the Government Information Directorate (UPI) of the Government’s administration. Appointed press secretary to the Prime Minister, then head of the UPI.

Since May 1999: Adviser to the Prime Minister.

January 2000: Head of the Presidential Press Service.

January 2002: Head of Protocol of the President of the Russian Federation.

Speaks fluent English, German and French.

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