33 Facts About Konstantin Kosachev

Konstantin Iosifovich Kosachev is a Russian politician and former diplomat.

Konstantin Kosachev is a senator at the Federation Council and chairs its Foreign Affairs Committee.

Konstantin Kosachev has been on the US sanctions list since 2018.

Konstantin Kosachev was elected to the State Duma in 1999.

Konstantin Kosachev was born in the Pushkin district of Moscow Oblast on 17 September 1962 to Nina G and Joseph Artemyevitch Kosachev, a diplomat who worked in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the USSR.

Konstantin Kosachev lived in Sweden eight years and attended school there.

In 1984, Konstantin Kosachev graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations.

Konstantin Kosachev became first secretary of Russian embassy in Sweden in 1991.

Konstantin Kosachev was named advisor to the embassy in 1994.

Konstantin Kosachev participated in several international conferences on European security and disarmament.

Konstantin Kosachev was part of an advisory group to Russia's minister of foreign affairs.

Konstantin Kosachev was deputy director of the 2nd European Department of the Russian foreign ministry, in charge of implementing Russian foreign policy in the Nordic area.

From May 1998 Konstantin Kosachev was first an adviser, then an assistant for international affairs to the prime minister.

Konstantin Kosachev served as secretariat of the chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation.

Konstantin Kosachev was a member of the Commissions to assist the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in overcoming the consequences of the NATO bombing, to implement the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty between the Russian Federation, the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty and to conclude a new treaty on further reduction and limitation of strategic offensive arms.

From 2003 to 2007, Konstantin Kosachev was deputy of the 4th State Duma of the Russian Federation and part of the United Russia party.

Konstantin Kosachev served as Chairman of the State Duma Foreign Affairs Committee.

In 2005, Konstantin Kosachev wrote an article entitled "Why Would a Bear Need Wings", challenging then-Chairman of the State Duma Boris Gryzlov's position that the United Russia party did not need working groups.

On 4 December 2011, Konstantin Kosachev was elected deputy of the 6th State Duma of the Russian Federation.

Konstantin Kosachev was elected deputy chairman of the State Duma Foreign Affairs Committee.

On 18 December 2014, Konstantin Kosachev was appointed Federation Council representative by the heads of the Chuvash Republic.

On 21 September 2015, Konstantin Kosachev was named representative of the Government of the Mari El Republic in the Russian Federation Council.

In September 2015 Konstantin Kosachev was included in the sanctions list of individuals and entities adopted the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine.

Konstantin Kosachev was sanctioned by the UK government in 2022 in relation to the Russo-Ukrainian War.

Konstantin Kosachev headed the State Duma's delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe from 2004 to 2012.

Konstantin Kosachev served as vice-speaker of PACE and coordinated a deputy group for relations with the Swedish Parliament.

When considering the 2006 resolution condemning communist regimes, Konstantin Kosachev declared it inadmissible to equate communism and Nazism: "It is impossible to equate the communist ideology and the ideology of Nazism".

In June 2010, Konstantin Kosachev wrote an article for the Echo of Moscow website proposing that the Russian Federation devise set of principles or a historical doctrine whereby it could disclaim any financial, legal, political or moral responsibility for USSR's actions in former territories while still acting as a successor state.

Konstantin Kosachev opposes Russian ratification of Article 20 of the United Nations Convention against Corruption.

Konstantin Kosachev believes that the 20th article contradicts Article 49 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation and could deprive millions of Russian citizens of the presumption of innocence.

In February 2017, following the resignation of Michael T Flynn as national security adviser, Kosachev opined that Russophobia was pandemic in Donald Trump's administration.

Konstantin Kosachev spread the Ukraine bioweapons conspiracy theory, claiming without evidence that Ukrainians were being turned into genetically modified super soldiers in the alleged laboratories in Ukraine.

Konstantin Kosachev is a member of the Alexander Gorchakov Public Diplomacy Fund's Management Board.