Valery Yakovlevich Tereshchenko (russian: Валерий Яковлевич Терещенко; born 1952) is a Russian

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and is a former

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of the

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to the

Kingdom of Cambodia Cambodia (; also Kampuchea ; km, កម្ពុជា, UNGEGN: ), officially the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country located in the southern portion of the Indochinese Peninsula in Southeast Asia, spanning an area of , bordered by Thailand t ...

Career

Tereshchenko graduated from the

Institute of Asian and African Countries The Institute of Asian and African Countries () at Lomonosov Moscow State University was founded in 1956 as the Institute of Oriental Languages and was renamed to the Institute of Asian and African Countries in 1972. It is a Russian Centre for ...

Moscow State University M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU; russian: Московский государственный университет имени М. В. Ломоносова) is a public research university in Moscow, Russia and the most prestigious ...

in 1978, and entered the Soviet diplomatic service in 1980. From 1980 to 1985, 1988–1992 and 1995-1999 he served at the Soviet, and then Russian embassy in Indonesia. On 29 July 2004,

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signed

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#982 confirming the appointment of Tereshchenko as Ambassador of Russia to Cambodia and held the post until 25 May 2009 when

Dmitry Medvedev Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev ( rus, links=no, Дмитрий Анатольевич Медведев, p=ˈdmʲitrʲɪj ɐnɐˈtolʲjɪvʲɪtɕ mʲɪdˈvʲedʲɪf; born 14 September 1965) is a Russian politician who has been serving as the dep ...

relieved Tereshchenko as ambassador. Tereshchenko speaks

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and

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References

1952 births Living people Moscow State University alumni Russian diplomats Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (Russian Federation) Ambassadors of Russia to Cambodia Ambassadors of Russia to New Zealand Ambassadors of Russia to Tonga Ambassadors of Russia to Samoa

Valery The French name Valery () is a male given name or surname of Germanic origin ''Walaric'' (see Walric of Leuconay), that has often been confused in modern times with the Latin name ''Valerius''—that explains the variant spelling Valéry (). The S ...

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