- Sergey Yastrzhembsky
Sergey Vladimirovich Yastrzhembsky ( _ru. Сергей Владимирович Ястржембский, _pl. Siergiej Władimirowicz Jastrżembski), born
December 4 1953 ,Moscow , is a Russian Federationpolitician anddiplomat born into a Polish family, Jastrzębski vel Jastrzembski. [Grzegorz Ślubowski, "Przyjaciele Moskale",Wprost Nr 3, 2008, 106-107]Educated at Moscow State Institute of Foreign Relations (MGIMO) - allegedly 'a recruiting ground for the KGB' [ [http://www.axisglobe.com/article.asp?article=472 "Vyacheslav Trubnikov - The Russian Governor of India",Allister Maunk and Pavel Simonov for Axisglobe.com, Washington, DC, 11-06-2005] .Accessed: 07-19-2008.] - under the Soviet Union's Foreign Ministry in 1976, and as a postgraduate at the Soviet Academy of Sciences' Institute of of the International Workers' Movement in 1979, where he earned a Ph.D. in history. [ [http://www.kremlin.ru/eng/subj/22194.shtml Biography at Russian President's website] Worked as President Vladimir Putin’s chief spokesperson on the conflict in
Chechnya [ [http://www.cdi.org/russia/johnson/6028-1.cfm "New Putin Biography on Shelves", Vladimir Isachenkov for Associated Press, 01-17-2002, quoted at "Johnson's Russia List"] . Accessed: 07-18-2008.] for 14 months before winning promotion in March 2001 to head the Kremlin’s Information Policy Department, co-ordinating all Putin’s external communications. [ [http://www.cdi.org/russia/146.html "Russia: Information Policy Chief To Brush Up Kremlin's Image", Sophie Lambroschini, Radio Free Europe, 03-22-2001] .Accessed: 07-19-2008.]In 2004, Putin made him presidential special envoy to the EU in
Brussels , where he earned a reputation for maladroit statements [ [http://thinkexist.com/quotes/sergei_yastrzhembsky/3.html "Sergei Yastrzhembsky quotes", ThinkExist.com online dictionary of quotations] .Accessed: 07-18-2008.] . That postVedomosti on 8 May 2008 reported said would become defunct when he left the post after Putin stepped down. Towards the end of his posting to Brussels, Yastrzhembsky warned the EU that recognizing Kosovo's independence would open a "Pandora's box" of separatism in Europe. [ [http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,3143472,00.html "EU Calls on Serbia to Protect Foreign Embassies", Deutsche Welle, 02-22-2008, (English)] .Accessed: 07-18-2008.] .His job was being scrapped – unlike other Putin aides, he was leaving the Kremlin’s service of his own accord, a source close to the Russian foreign ministry told the Western-owned Moscow business daily, adding: "His dismissal is probably connected with the future redistribution of powers between the president (
Dimitry Medvedev ) and the prime minister (Putin)." [ [http://en.rian.ru/analysis/20080508/106933953.html "Russia will not have envoy for relations with the EU", Vedomosti, Moscow,quoted in "What the Russian papers say", RIA Novosti, 05-08-2008 (English)] .Accessed: 07-19-2008.] .References
External links
* [http://www.kremlin.ru/eng/subj/22194.shtml Official English webpage] at
Kremlin , with biography
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/170254.stm Spokesman sacked by Yeltsin]
* Grzegorz Ślubowski, "Przyjaciele Moskale",Wprost Nr 3, 2008, 106-107
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