[2] As a member of the United Russia political party in the federation council, he is the chairman of the Commission on Information Policy.

His father, Konstantin Mikhailovich Pushkov (1921–2019) was an employee of the Consulate General of the USSR in Beijing.

From 2008 to 2011, Pushkov was the Director of the Institute of Contemporary International Studies at the Diplomatic Academy of Russia.

[5] In 2014, Pushkov suggested that Petro Poroshenko dismiss Andrii Deshchytsia, who was accused by Sergei Lavrov of calling Vladimir Putin a dickhead during the rioting near the Russian Embassy in Ukraine.

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