Igor Konashenkov

Lieutenant General Igor Yevgenyevich Konashenkov (born 15 May 1966) is the chief spokesman for the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation. Igor Konashenkov was born on 15 May 1966 in Kishinev, Moldavian SSR, Soviet Union. Konashenkov graduated with distinction from the engineering department of Zhitomir Higher Military School of Radioelectronics of Air Defence in 1988. In 1998, he graduated from the Air Defence Military Academy. In 2006, he graduated from the higher courses of the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia. He has served in the Soviet Air Defence Forces and in the Russian Aerospace Defence Forces, in the directorate of the major command of the Territorial Air Defence Forces.