Leonid Moiseev
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Leonid P. Moiseev (born 1948) has been the Ambassador of Russia to Australia since December 2001. Moiseev was born in Vladivostok in the Maritime Province of the then Soviet Union. He was educated at the Moscow Institute of International Relations and has been a member of first the Soviet and then the Russian diplomatic service since 1973. He has served mainly in the People's Republic of China (he is fluent in Chinese) and Japan.
From 1994 to 2001 Moiseev was first Deputy Director and then Director of the First Asian Directorate of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, dealing with issues relating to China, Taiwan, North Korea, South Korea and Mongolia, and was also a Member of the Collegium of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.
