Born on November 10, 1965, in Vinnitsa, Ukraine. 

1988: graduated from the Translation Department of the Moscow Maurice Thorez State Institute of Foreign Languages, and then from the German Department of Leipzig University.

1988-1993: editor of the European Department at the TASS/ITAR-TASS news agency.

1993-1997: ITAR-TASS correspondent in Paris.

After returning to Russia: editor-in-chief of the European Department at ITAR-TASS and deputy director of the ITAR-TASS news service.

1998: Deputy Head of the Government Information Directorate of the Russian Government Office.

1998: Press Secretary to the Russian Prime Minister, and then Head of the Government Information Directorate.

May 1999: Advisor to the Russian Prime Minister.

January 2000: Head of the Presidential Press Service.

January 2002: Head of the Presidential Protocol.

May 12, 2008: appointed Telecommunications and Mass Communications Minister of the Russian Federation.

Fluent in English, German and French.