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Igor Konashenkov

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In this name that followsEastern Slavic naming customs,thepatronymicisYevgenyevichand thefamily nameisKonashenkov.
Igor Konashenkov
Игорь Конашенков
Official portrait, 2013
Chief Spokesperson
for theRussian Ministry of Defence
Incumbent
Assumed office
30 August 2011
PresidentDmitry Medvedev
Vladimir Putin
Prime MinisterVladimir Putin
Dmitry Medvedev
Mikhail Mishustin
Defence MinisterAnatoly Serdyukov
Sergei Shoigu
Preceded byOffice established
Personal details
Born(1966-05-15)May 15, 1966(age 58)
Kishinev,Moldavian SSR,Soviet Union
(nowChișinău,Moldova)
Political partyUnited Russia
ReligionRussian Orthodoxy
Military service
AllegianceSoviet Union
Russia
RankLieutenant general
Konashenkov giving a briefing in 2015
Konashenkov being interviewed during the deployment of the Russian Navy in the Mediterranean Sea, January 2016
Konashenkov with journalists at El-Karjatein in Syria, April 2016

Lieutenant GeneralIgor Yevgenyevich Konashenkov(‹See Tfd›Russian:Игорь Евгеньевич Конашенков;born 15 May 1966) is a Russian military officer serving as the Head of the Department of Information and Mass Communication of theMinistry of Defence of the Russian Federation.

Early life

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Igor Konashenkov was born on 15 May 1966 inKishinev,Moldavian SSR,Soviet Union.[1]

Career

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Konashenkov graduated with distinction from the engineering department of Zhytomyr Higher Military School of Radioelectronics of Air Defence in 1988. In 1998, he graduated from theAir Defence Military Academy.In 2006, he graduated from the higher courses of theMilitary Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia.[1]

He has served in theSoviet Air Defence Forcesand in theRussian Aerospace Defence Forces,in the directorate of the major command of the Territorial Air Defence Forces.[1]

Military spokesman

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From 1998, Konashenkov was the senior officer, chief of group, and deputy chief of the Department for Cooperation with Russian and Foreign Media of the Russian Federation Ministry of Defence Press Service.[1]

In 2003, he became chief of the press service and assistant commander of theNorth Caucasus Military Districtfor public and media affairs. In 2005 he became chief of the press service of the army and assistant commander-in-chief of the army for public and media affairs.[1]

In 2009, he was appointed deputy chief of the Department of Media Affairs and Information of the Russian Federation Ministry of Defence. In August 2011, he became chief of the Department of Media Affairs and Information of the Russian Federation Ministry of Defence.[1]He is Russia's chief military spokesman.[2]

He has headed units for informational support of the Russian military in the North Caucasus, and the Collective Force for Peacekeeping in the Georgia–Abkhazia conflict zone.[1]

During the2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine,Konashenkov claimed that U.S. forces had planned to infect birds inUkrainewith a spreadable form of theH5N1 flustrain "with a mortality rate of 50 percent" as well asNewcastle disease.[3]He was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant General.

Sanctions

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In April 2022, Konashenkov was added to theEuropean Unionsanctions list "in response to the ongoing unjustified and unprovoked Russian military aggression against Ukraine and other actions undermining or threatening the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine".[4]

He was sanctioned by theUKgovernment in 2022 in relation to theRusso-Ukrainian War.[5]

Honours

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Konashenkov has received theOrder of Courage,Order of Military Merit,Order of Friendship,and 14 other medals.[1]

Konashenkov is a member of the presidium of the Union of Journalists in Moscow who awarded him a diploma for services to openness in the press in 2016.[6]

References

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  1. ^abcdefghIgor Konashenkov.Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation. Retrieved 30 June 2017.
  2. ^Russia warns it will shoot down alliance jets over Syria if US launches air strikes against Assad.Roland Oliphant,The Telegraph,6 October 2016. Retrieved 30 June 2017.
  3. ^Roth, Andrew (February 25, 2022)."Russian Conspiracy Theory Says U.S. Training Birds to Spread Bio Weapons".Newsweek.RetrievedMarch 23,2022.
  4. ^"EU imposes sanctions against 217 businessmen, politicians, reporters from Russia, Donbass".TASS.2022-04-09.RetrievedJune 3,2022.
  5. ^"CONSOLIDATED LIST OF FINANCIAL SANCTIONS TARGETS IN THE UK"(PDF).Retrieved16 April2023.
  6. ^С 50-летием, уважаемый Игорь Евгеньевич!Союз журналистов Москвы, 15 May 2016. Retrieved 3 July 2017.
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