Igor Konashenkov

Igor Konashenkov
Игорь Конашенков
Official portrait, 2013
Chief Spokesperson
for the Russian Ministry of Defence
Assumed office
30 August 2011
PresidentDmitry Medvedev
Vladimir Putin
Prime MinisterVladimir Putin
Dmitry Medvedev
Mikhail Mishustin
Defence MinisterAnatoly Serdyukov
Sergei Shoigu
Preceded byOffice established
Personal details
Born (1966-05-15) May 15, 1966 (age 58)
Kishinev, Moldavian SSR, Soviet Union
(now Chișinău, Moldova)
Political partyUnited Russia
ReligionRussian Orthodoxy
Military service
Allegiance Soviet Union
 Russia
RankLieutenant general
Konashenkov giving a briefing in 2015
Konashenkov being interviewed during the deployment of the Russian Navy in the Mediterranean Sea, January 2016
Konashenkov with journalists at El-Karjatein in Syria, April 2016

Lieutenant General Igor Yevgenyevich Konashenkov (Russian: Игорь Евгеньевич Конашенков; born 15 May 1966) is a Russian military officer serving as the Head of the Department of Information and Mass Communication of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation.