AKIPRESS.COM - Dauren Abayev has been appointed Ambassador of the Republic of Kazakhstan to the Russian Federation.

The respective order was signed by President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, president's press service reported.

Born in 1979 in Almaty region, Dauren Abayev is a graduate of the Al-Farabi Kazakh National University (2001) and Leiden University (2006). He has worked in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Kazakh embassies in Azerbaijan and the Netherlands, and served in the President’s Executive Office.

In 2011, he was appointed the Press Secretary and Adviser to the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

From 2016 to 2019, he was the Minister of Information and Communications of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

From 2019 to 2020, he was the Minister of Information and Social Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

In May 2020, he was appointed First Deputy Chief of the Kazakh President’s Executive Office.