Alexei Pushkov

Alexei Konstantinovich Puschkow (Russian Алексей Константинович Пушков, scientific transliteration Aleksej Konstantinović Puškov; born August 10, 1954 in Beijing ) is a Russian foreign policy expert and chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the State Duma. Puschkow is also head of the Russian PACE delegation. He is also managing editor and moderator of the weekly, sent in the transmitter TVI, political magazine Postscript.

Puschkow has a doctorate in political science and director of the Institute for topical international problems at the Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Foreign Ministry.

Positions

Puschkow is known for his sharp and often polemical critique of the European and U.S. policy.

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