Konstantin Kosachev

Konstantin Kosachev
Константин Косачев
Kosachev in 2021
Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Federation Council
Assumed office
25 December 2015
Russian Federation Senator
from the Mari El Republic
Assumed office
21 September 2015
Preceded bySvetlana Solntseva
Russian Federation Senator
from the Chuvash Republic
In office
15 December 2014 – 15 September 2015
Preceded byGalina Nikolayeva
Succeeded byNikolay Fyodorov
Head of Rossotrudnichestvo
In office
5 March 2012 – 22 December 2014
Member of the State Duma
In office
19 December 1999 – 21 December 2011
Personal details
Born
Konstantin Iosifovich Kosachev

(1962-09-17) 17 September 1962 (age 62)
Moscow Oblast, USSR
NationalityRussian
Political partyUnited Russia
SpouseLyudmila Kosachev
Children3
ProfessionPolitician, diplomat

Konstantin Iosifovich Kosachev (Russian: Константин Иосифович Косачев; born 17 September 1962) is a Russian politician and former diplomat. He is a senator at the Federation Council (Russian parliament's upper house) and chairs its Foreign Affairs Committee. He has been on the US sanctions list since 2018.

After graduating from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations, Kosachev was a diplomat at the Russian Embassy in Sweden. He was elected to the State Duma in 1999. He was appointed head of Rossotrudnichestvo in 2012. In December 2014, he became a member of the Federation Council.