AKIPRESS.COM - Ambassador Rogov from Russia was appointed Head of the OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek on 29 March 2021.

Ambassador Rogov has been a counsellor for the Russian delegation to the UN Commission on Human Rights in Geneva, head of the desk – human rights and civil society at the Russian Mission to the UN, New York and Minister – Counsellor at the Russian Embassy in Denmark, Copenhagen.

Prior to his appointment in Bishkek, he was Deputy Director of the Department on new Challenges and Threats, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia.

He graduated from the School of Oriental Studies – Moscow State University with specializations in political science, Islamic law and Islamic culture. His fields of specialization are counter-narcotics, counter-terrorism, crime prevention, Afghanistan and Central Asia, border control, OSCE, UNODC, CARICC, Paris Pact Process.

Ambassador Rogov speaks Russian, English, German and Arabic.