Supervising Complex SiTec overseas operations activities, management of Foreign Business Partners correspondence, negotiations and Contract signing.

Supervising political information flows for Interfax News Service newswires, news items selection, correspondents’ activities coordination, news monitoring.

Supervising information flows for RIA Novosti News Service newswires, news items selection, correspondents’ activities coordination, news monitoring, foreign news items translation, proofreading and editing.

Functions included MDM’s Eurochem chemical division PR activities management - press release writing, media analysis, liaison with the press, corporate web site development, management of corporate newspaper, coordination of regional press officer’s activities.

Supervising information flows for ITAR-TASS News Service newswires, news items selection, correspondents’ activities coordination, news monitoring, proofreading and editing.

Functions included press release writing, press reviews compilation, media analysis, press conferences preparation and management, liaison with the press and Ministry officials.

Clients include Human Rights Watch, USA Poultry & Egg Export Council (USAPEEC), Goskomecology (World Bank Biodiversity Preservation Program).

Improved corporate profile of General Electric and USA Poultry & Egg Export Council in Russia. Supervised and coordinated development of communications strategy, maintained media relations, supervising and coordinating account managers working for such clients as General Electric (GE), USA Poultry & Egg Export Council (USAPEEC), Egypt Tourist Authority. Developed PR strategy, prepared press kits, hosted press briefings and conferences in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Ufa, liased with Russian and international press, created PR opportunities. Worked closely with the integrated GE public relations worldwide network for information, media monitoring and best practice exchange, coordination of simultaneous multi-market information distribution. Developed bidding proposals for the RAO UES Rossii and Tunis Tourist Authority.

Started up and successfully ran the IIE Energy Training office in Moscow. Supervised planning and logistical support for delivering a series of 27 professional management courses in the Russian energy sector. Coordinated the activities of teams of US instructors and business experts. Supervised administration of an office of 7 employees, including accounting operations, procurement, and contracting according to USAID procurement rules and regulations. This highly successful program produced over 650 graduates in the senior management ranks of RAO UES Rossii, government ministries, and regional energy companies, including courses in Moscow, Blagoveshchensk, Kemerovo, Kaliningrad, Krasnoyarsk, Saratov, Sochi, St.Petersburg, Vladimir, Kiev (Ukraine), Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan), Almaty (Kazakstan), and Yerevan (Armenia).

Covered major political, economic and cultural events in the US. Wrote articles, feature stories, news analysis, daily US press and TV reviews and photo work for TASS, Echo of the Planet illustrated weekly, newspapers "24" and Krasnaya Zvezda. In June 1990 covered Soviet parliamentary delegation visit to Canada and temporarily replaced TASS correspondent in Ottawa. August-September 1993 - Acting ITAR-TASS North America Regional Center chief.

Moscow, USSR Foreign news desk supervisor. Supervised information flows for TASS World Service, TV and Radio wires. Wrote articles and foreign news analysis for TASS and major Russian publications. Translated articles from American, British, Canadian and French press into Russian for TASS foreign press reviews and Za Rubezhom weekly digest.

Covered major political, economic and cultural events in Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Wrote articles, feature stories, news analysis, daily UK press and TV reviews and photo work for TASS, Echo of the Planet illustrated weekly, Komsomolskaya Pravda, Soviet Russia, Selskaya Zhizn and other major Russian publications.

As Junior correspondent Covered political, economic and cultural events in Estonia for TASS World News Service. Edited news reports from TASS bureaus in the US and Canada. Wrote articles and news analysis for TASS and major Russian publications.

Translation of foreign English language media publications.

International Journalism, diploma cum laude