Alexander Alexandrovich Kinshchak (born 1961) is a Russia

Russia

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n diplomat.

Kinshchak graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations in 1988, and went on to work in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

From 2002-2004 he was an adviser-envoy at the Embassy of Russia in Baghdad, and from 2006 was Deputy Director of the Middle East and North Africa Department at the Russian foreign affairs ministry.

Kinshchak was appointed by Russian President Vladimir Putin

Vladimir Putin

Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin served as the second President of the Russian Federation and is the current Prime Minister of Russia, as well as chairman of United Russia and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Union of Russia and Belarus. He became acting President on 31 December 1999, when...

 on 28 January 2008 as Ambassador of Russia to Kuwait, and he presented his credentials to Emir Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah

Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah

Sheikh Sabah IV Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah is the Emir of Kuwait. Sheikh Sabah was sworn in on January 29, 2006 after confirmation by the National Assembly of Kuwait. He is the fourth son of Emir Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. Sheikh Sabah is the head of the ruling Al-Sabah family...

 on 28 April 2008.

Kinshchak holds the diplomatic rank

Diplomatic rank

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 of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary 2nd-class, and speaks Russian

Russian language

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, English

English language

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 and Arabic

Arabic language

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