Graduated from the Moscow Culture University in 1994 with a master’s degree in education; started to work in the Xinhua News Agency in 1995, serving consecutively in the Russian section of the International News Department, the Moscow Bureau, the political news section of the International News Department, the video news section of the International News Department and the Asia-Europe Regional Bureau; now chief correspondent of the Almaty Bureau; studied the doctorate program at the School of International Studies of the Peking University from 2005; won the degree of Doctor of Laws of the Peking University in 2010; participated in reporting major and breaking news including the hijacking incident in Moscow, the color revolution in Georgia, the SCO Summit, the APEC Summit, the CIS Summit and the BRICS Summit with many works including the report on the hostage incidence in Moscow and the report on post-war Grozny commended by the Xinhua News Agency for excellence in writing; interviewed dignitaries of the countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States including Russian president Vladimir Putin, Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev, former Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze and former Azerbaijani President Heydar Aliyev.