Vyacheslav Kostikov
Vyacheslav Kostikov | |
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Вячеслав Костиков | |
| Born | 24 August 1940 |
| Occupation(s) | Russian diplomat, journalist and writer |
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Vyacheslav Vasilyevich Kostikov (Russian: Вячеслав Васильевич Костиков; born 24 August 1940) is a Russian diplomat, journalist and writer who served as the press secretary to the first Russian President Boris Yeltsin.
Biography
[edit]In 1966, he graduated from MSU Faculty of Journalism. From 1966 to 1967 he worked as an English translator in India. Since 1967 he has been working as a political columnist for the RIA Novosti.
In 1968 Kostikov studied journalism in England, at the University of Sheffield. At the same time, he continued his studies at the Academy of Foreign Trade (1972). Then he started worked for UNESCO (1972–78 and 1982–1988).
From 1992 to 1994 he served as the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation.[1] In 1994–1996 he was the representative of the Russian Federation at the Vatican and the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.
Presently, he is the Director for Strategic Planning of Russian newspaper Argumenty i Fakty.
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- Recipients of the Order of Friendship
- 1940 births
- Living people
- Journalists from Moscow
- Soviet journalists
- Russian male journalists
- Kremlin Press Secretaries
- Communist Party of the Soviet Union members
- 20th-century Russian writers
- Diplomats from Moscow
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (Russian Federation)
- Ambassadors of Russia to the Holy See
- Alumni of the University of Sheffield