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Sergei Konyashin is a Russian journalist, sociologist, publicist, writer, poet, Arabist diplomat, translator. Born on August 26, 1983 in Gulkevichi, Krasnodar Territory, USSR. During his school years spent in Novorossiysk, he was interested in journalism. He was a regular contributor to the children's publication Parus. Published in large-circulation city newspapers (“Evening Novorossiysk”, “Novorossiysk Worker”, etc.), and literary collections. In 2000, he graduated with a gold medal from secondary school No. 20 in Novorossiysk and entered the Faculty of International Journalism at MGIMO (U) of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 2005, he graduated from this faculty with a degree in “International Journalist with Knowledge of Foreign Languages” (Arabic and English). 2005-2006 – correspondent for the military TV channel “Zvezda” (Central Television and Radio Broadcasting Studio of the Russian Ministry of Defense). 2006-2010 – editor of the Department of Information Programs of Channel One OJSC (“News”, “Other News”, “Time”, “Sunday Time”). 2010-2013 – Secretary-Reference Officer, Attache of the Russian Embassy in Yemen. 2013-2014 – employee of the Department of the Middle East and North Africa of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 2014-2018 – third, second secretary of the Russian Embassy in Sudan. 2019-2021 – Head of the Consular Section of the Russian Embassy in Algeria. From June 2021 to the present – an English teacher at the private educational institution “New Level School” in Novorossiysk. Author of the collection of poems “Desolation” (Novorossiysk, 2004), “Preface” (M., Publishing House “Author’s Book”, 2014, 184 pp.) and “Brigantine in the Sands” (publishing Internet platform “LitRes”, 2021); monographs “Information television in the political process of post-Soviet Russia” (M., Publishing house “RSP”, 2016, 304 pages) and “Stereotypes in information a