Valery Yakovlevich Tereshchenko (born 1952) is a Russia

Russia

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n diplomat

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 and is a former Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Kingdom of Cambodia.

Tereshchenko graduated from the Institute of Asian and African Countries

Institute of Asian and African Countries

INSTITUTE OF ASIAN AND AFRICAN COUNTRIES at Lomonosov Moscow State University was founded in 1956 as the Institute of Oriental Languages. Today's name from 1972. It is the leading Russian Centre for Oriental Studies. It employs more than 250 members including 28 professors and 70 assistant professors...

 at Moscow State University

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 in 1978, and entered the Soviet diplomatic service in 1980.

From 1980-1985, 1988-1992 and 1995-1999 he served at the Soviet, and then Russian embassy in Indonesia.

On 29 July 2004, Russian President Vladimir Putin

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 signed Ukaz #982 confirming the appointment of Tereshchenko as Ambassador of Russia to Cambodia

Ambassador of Russia to Cambodia

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 and held the post until 25 May 2009 when Dmitry Medvedev

Dmitry Medvedev

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 relieved Tereshchenko as Ambassador.

Tereshchenko speaks Russian

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, English

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, Indonesian and Malay

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