By Order of the Russian Foreign Ministry dated 12/14/2023 No. 25078 ZHELOKHOVTSEV Ivan Alekseevich was appointed Director of the First Department of Asia.
Zhelokhovtsev I.A., born in 1972.
Higher education: in 1996 he graduated from the Institute of Asian and African Countries of the Lomonosov Moscow State University. He has the diplomatic rank of Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the 2nd class, assigned on 12/25/2020. Speaks Chinese and English.
Since 1997, he has held various positions in the Ministry’s central office and abroad.
From 2014 to 2018, he was the head of the Department in the First Department of Asia.
From 2018 to 2023, he was an adviser-envoy of the Russian Embassy in China.
Since December 7, 2023 – Director of the First Asia Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry.
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