Minister of Communications and Mass Media Igor Olegovich Shchegolev of Russia

Head: Igor Olegovich ShchegolevAddress:Ulitsa Tverskaya 7, 125375 Moscow, Russian FederationTel: +7 (495) 771-8100, 771-8121Fax: +7 (495) 771-8718official siteIgor Shchegolev was appointed Minister of Communications on May 12, 2008.

Shchegolev was Press Secretary to the Prime Minister and then Head of the Department of State Information from 1998 to 2002, after having served as Deputy Head of the Department of State Information of the Russian Government in 1998.

Shchegolev was the ITAR-TASS correspondent in Paris.

From BBC Monitoring International Reports) Igor Olegovich Shchegolev was born on 10 November in 1965 in Vinnytsya.

join the system," Igor Shchegolev said at a news conference.

In particular, Igor Olegovich Shchegolev was appointed a new IT and Telecoms Minister, while the IT and Telecommunications Ministry was renamed the Telecoms and Mass Communications Ministry.