Aydar Aganin

Aydar Aganin
Aydar Aganin
Айдар Рашидович Аганин
	Aganin in 2019
Ambassador of Russia to Libya
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 29 December 2022
Preceded by	Ivan Molotkov [ru]
Personal details
Born	23 August 1967 (age 57); Kazan, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Alma mater	Moscow State Institute of International Relations

Aydar Rashidovich Aganin (Russian: Айдар Рашидович Аганин; born 23 August 1967) is a Russian diplomat of Tatar descent, and a former journalist.

Biography

Aganin was born in Kazan, in what was then the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, in the Soviet Union, on 23 August 1967.^[1] He graduated from Moscow State Institute of International Relations in 1990 and joined the Soviet Ministry of Foreign Affairs that year. He served as counselor of the Russian embassy in Jordan between 2003 and 2007, and in 2007 became Deputy Chief Editor of ANO TV-Novosti, and Director of the Arabic Broadcasting of Russia Today's Arabic news service Rusya Al-Yaum.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]^[7]

Between 2011 and 2016, Aganin was Senior Adviser at the Russian Embassy in the United States of America, and in 2017 until 2019 he served as head of the Russian mission to the Palestinian National Authority in Ramallah.^[1] In June 2019 he became Deputy Director of the Foreign Policy Planning Department of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and received the diplomatic rank of Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary second class that month.^[1] Aganin is fluent in Russian, English, Arabic and Hebrew.^[8] He currently serves as the Russian ambassador to Libya.^[9]

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^ Asma Ali Zain. "Arabic Versions of Foreign TV Channels Trigger Lively Debate". Khaleej Times. Archived from the original on 3 April 2019. Retrieved 22 February 2017.
^ "Background to "Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent US Elections": The Analytic Process and Cyber Incident Attribution" (PDF). Intyelligence.senate.gov. Retrieved 22 February 2017.
^ "Представительство Российской Федерации при Палестинской национальной администрации". Представительство Российской Федерации при Палестинской национальной администрации. MID.ru. Retrieved 19 March 2019.
^ Burak Bilgehan Özpek. "For Russia, Libya Is a Land of Opportunity". National Interest. Retrieved 11 February 2023.

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