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Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation - Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation.
Biography
Born October 17, 1967 in Moscow. Father is the head of the Russian diplomatic mission in Pakistan.
1989
In 1989, Peskov graduated from the Institute of Asian and African Countries (ISAA) at Lomonosov Moscow State University (specialty "historian-orientalist"). In the same year he joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. Peskov speaks English, Turkish and Arabic.
1994-1996
In 1990-94 he was a duty assistant, attache, third secretary of the Russian Embassy in Turkey.
In 1994-96 he worked in the central office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
In 1996 he returned to the Russian embassy in Turkey, served as second and first secretary.
During this visit of Yeltsin to Istanbul, Peskov impressed the first president of Russia as an interpreter from Turkish.
2000
In 2000, after the appointment of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as acting president and his subsequent election as president, Peskov was appointed head of the media relations department of the press service of the presidential administration. Subsequently, he served as deputy, first deputy head of the press service department, as well as deputy press secretary of the president. According to media reports, Peskov also served as translator Putin the latter's meetings with Turkish leaders.
2004
On April 9, 2004, Peskov was appointed First Deputy Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Alexei Gromov. On the same day, Natalya Timakova, a former journalist of the Kommersant newspaper, was appointed head of the press service department. In his new position, Peskov, according to Gromov, was supposed to be engaged in information and coordination work, that is, to ensure the hardware interaction of the presidential press service with the executive authorities. In addition, he was assigned the preparation of large information projects, the organization of large press conferences and television "direct lines" of the president, as well as interaction with foreign journalists. In addition, as noted MEDIA, since that time, Peskov received the right to voice the position of the head states on a particular issue.
2006
In June 2006, Peskov served as spokesman for St. Petersburg the G8 leaders held at the summit. A month before that, he said that the American PR company Ketchum would help the Russian authorities organize the summit. Peskov refused to disclose the amount of the contract (according to some sources, it was two million dollars US, according to others - 4 million pounds). Following the forum, the deputy presidential press secretary said that he highly appreciated the services provided to the Russian government by an American company, but believes that "the main work was done by us." However, this did not prevent the Kremlin, after the first contract with Ketchum expired in December 2006, from concluding a second one regarding "public relations consultations, lobbying and assistance in relations with the media" and aimed at improving the image Russia in the United States. Peskov was named the representative of the customer of the PR company's services. The new contract expired in February 2007, and the cost of work on it amounted to 845 thousand dollars. In early June 2007, Peskov said that the contract of the presidential administration of the Russian Federation with Ketchum was again extended, and now the agency will provide To Moscow PR support not only in the United States, but also in other countries of the world. The amount of the new contract was not disclosed.
In December 2006, Peskov reported through the media that the Russian authorities had nothing to do with the death of ex-state security officer of the Russian Federation Alexander Litvinenko, who died on November 23, 2006 in London as a result of poisoning with polonium-210 radioactive substance (information about the possibility that Litvinenko was eliminated by order from Moscow, immediately after his death appeared in Western media). In particular, Peskov said that "it is impossible even to imagine that the Russian government could be behind the murder," and also that "this murder is a clear provocation in order to discredit the government of Vladimir Putin." A similar version was expressed by other representatives of the Russian authorities, including presidential aide Sergei Yastrzhembsky and head of the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) Sergei Lebedev.
2007
On March 13, 2007, Peskov, commenting on Berezovsky's interview with the British newspaper Guardian, in which he announced his intention to "overthrow Vladimir Putin," said that the Russian authorities consider this statement as a crime and hope that official London will therefore refuse to extend the status of a political refugee to a Russian businessman.
On April 14 and 15, 2007, in Moscow and St. Petersburg, the Other Russia coalition, headed by the famous chess player and chairman of the United Civil Front (OGF) Garry Kasparov, writer and leader of the National Bolshevik Party (NBP) Eduard Limonov, held "Marches of Dissenters." On April 16, 2007, Peskov, assessing the actions of the police and riot police during the actions, told the Reuters news agency that the protesters did not always act within the law, and law enforcement officials, on the contrary, ensured legality and order, and also tried to avoid provocations. Peskov called the protesters themselves "ultra-radicals." At the same time, a number of observers noted the rigidity of the actions of the police in relation to the demonstrators and journalists covering the actions. According to the results of protests in Moscow, 170 people were detained, in St. Petersburg - 120 people.
On April 17, 2007, speaking on the air of the Russian television channel for the foreign audience of Russia Today (RTTV), Peskov categorically denied information about the possible third term of President Putin. At the same time, he stressed that the stability of the country depends not on a specific president, but on the inviolability of the constitution. In the same speech, Peskov said that Berezovsky, acting against the current government, is trying to bring back the times when it was possible "to engage in illegal business, to use the lawlessness and power of the oligarchs."
In May 2007, some observers expressed their opinion on what roles Putin's press secretaries play. They noted that while Gromov serves as the "good" press secretary of the president, Peskov is "evil": he gives comments on the most acute and controversial topic. According to another version, Peskov's activity was explained by his possible upcoming increase.
2008
On April 23, 2008, President Vladimir Putin, by his decree, introduced in the White House the post of press secretary of the Prime Minister in the rank of deputy chief of staff of the government. At the same time, he dismissed Peskov from his post. A few days later, by order of the Prime Minister of the Russian Government Viktor Zubkov, Peskov was appointed to the position created by the presidential decree. In May 2008, shortly after the inauguration of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, who was elected to this post in March 2008, Putin became Prime Minister of the Russian Federation.
2009
In May 2009, Peskov was included in the Council for the Development of Domestic Cinematography under the Government of the Russian Federation. It was reported that the new body chaired by Prime Minister Putin "will consider and prepare proposals for state support for production, rental, screening of domestic film products and its distribution abroad."
Interview in July 2009
2012
In May 2012, he was appointed Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation - Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation.
2020: COVID-19 coronavirus infection
On May 12, 2020, Dmitry Peskov announced the detection of his coronavirus. COVID-19 A spokesman for the president was Russia Vladimir Putin hospitalized.
 | Yes, I got sick. I am being treated, - quotes the words of the representative of the Kremlin "RIA Novosti." |  |
Peskov clarified that he was in the clinic. What kind of medical institution he was placed in is not reported.
Earlier, the political Telegram channel Nezygar announced the suspicion of coronavirus at the presidential press secretary.
The last time Peskov publicly appeared on April 30 at a meeting with Putin, according to the Telegram channel, which is conducted by journalists from the Kremlin pool RIA Novosti. It was on this day that Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin informed the president about his positive test for a new type of coronavirus.[1]
According to Dmitry Peskov, he personally met with Vladimir Putin more than a month ago. This official reported TASS.
Peskov's wife Tatyana Navka , in a conversation with the Daily Storm , said that she was also hospitalized with coronavirus after her husband.
| | The whole family was sitting in strict isolation. My husband worked. In this regard, there is only one thesis that, most likely, this is from him, since he was the first to get sick. He brought from work, - said Navka. | |
According to her, together with Peskov, they decided to go to the hospital so as not to put the rest of the family at risk of infection. The skater assured that, like her husband, she was "under the control of doctors," with them "everything is in order."
In April 2020, journalists noticed that Dmitry Peskov wears a "virus blocker" on his jacket, the effectiveness of which has not been scientifically proven. The official assured that he himself bought it at the pharmacy.
| | You know, everyone now wears everything that is possible in terms of some preventive means, - he explained. | |
The next day, the press secretary appeared at work without a "blocker."
2021: Member of the Board of Directors of Rusnano
Dmitry Peskov entered the updated Board of Directors of Rusnano JSC, which announced this on September 24, 2021. Read more here.
2022: Member of the Presidium of the Commission on Scientific and Technological Development of the Russian Federation
Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko held the first meeting of the Commission on Scientific and Technological Development in 2022 via videoconference. This became known on February 7, 2022. At the meeting, the composition of the presidium of the commission was approved, chaired by Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko. Read more here.
Awards
Awarded the Order of Honor (2007)
Family
Married, he has a son and daughter, Elizabeth.
2022: Daughter Elizabeth's Binance exchange accounts closed
On April 28, 2022, it was announced that the Binance exchange had closed several accounts linked to relatives of senior Kremlin officials amid a wave of international sanctions.
The exchange said that Polina Kovaleva, the stepdaughter of Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, and Elizaveta Peskova, the daughter of Russian President Dmitry Peskov's press secretary, were among those blocked over the past two months. The exchange also blocked Kirill Malofeev.
Hobbies
He is fond of tennis.
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