Born Dec. 4, 1953 in Moscow, a Russian of Polish descent.
. In 1976 he graduated from the International Law Faculty of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), specializing in international lawyer, in 1979 - graduate of the Institute of the international labor movement USSR
. Candidate of historical sciences.
From 1979 to 1981 - Associate Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences under the CPSU Central Committee.
From 1981 to 1989 he worked in the journal Problems of Peace and Socialism "(r. Prague, Czechoslovakia), senior assistant, editor, consultant, deputy executive secretary.
. From 1989 to 1990 worked as a senior assistant of the International Department Central Committee.
. From 1990 to 1991 - deputy chief editor of International Journal of Megapolis.
. From 1991 to 1992 - Chief editor of "VIP", Deputy Director General of the International Fund for Social and Political Studies (Gorbachev Foundation).
. From April 1992 to 1993 - Director of Information and Press Department Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia.
. From 1993 to November 1996 - Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Russia in the Slovak Republic.
. 13 August 1996 was appointed press secretary of President RF B
. N. Yeltsin.
28 March 1997 was appointed deputy head of the Presidential Administration of Russia - Press Secretary of President of Russia.
From 4 to 9 April 1997 - and. about. Assistant to the President of Russia on international issues.
. On February 12, 1998 was a member of the Board of Directors of OAO Russia's Public Television (ORT).
. September 12, 1998 decree of the President was relieved of his duties as deputy head of the Presidential Administration of Russia - Spokesman of the President of Russia.
. November 23, 1998 - Deputy Prime Minister, Mr.
. Moscow on the socio-political relations at the international and interregional levels.
. June 25, 1999, was elected Chairman of the Board of Directors of JSC TV Center ".
. Since July 1999 - Deputy Head of the electoral headquarters OPOO "Motherland" by advocacy.
. January 10, 2000 was dismissed as deputy chairman of the Moscow government.
. 20 January 2000 was appointed assistant and
. about. President of Russia to coordinate information-analytical work of federal executive bodies involved in anti-terrorist operation in the North Caucasus, as well as interaction with the media.
. In June 2000 he was appointed Assistant to President Vladimir Putin.
. Has the diplomatic rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in class 2.
. Awarded the Order of the White Cross (the highest state award of the Slovak Republic).
. Hobbies - Collecting stamps with portraits of political figures, tennis, downhill skiing
. As a young man fond of volleyball.
Speaks English, Portuguese, French, Czech and Slovak.
Married. His wife, Tatiana
Yastrzhembsky - Education scholar, worked as the general director of the Center for Modern Medicine "Medicor". Has two sons.
