Yevgeny Alexandrovich Primakov (Yevgeny Primakov Jr.) (Russian: Евгений Александрович Примаков (Евгений Примаков-младший), 29 April 1976) is a Russian journalist, TV host, politician and diplomat serving as Head of the Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States, Compatriots Living Abroad and International Humanitarian Cooperation since 25 June 2020.
Some time he worked on radio Echo of Moscow, in TASS, in the magazine Kommersant-Money, published in the Obshchaya Gazeta newspaper.
During his missions to Israel and Palestine, he covered the terrorist acts of Palestinian extremist organizations in Israeli cities.
For the organization of the evacuation of Russian citizens from the Gaza strip in the summer of 2007 during the coup carried out by Hamas, he was awarded the medal of the EMERCOM and UNHCR "Member of the Emergency Humanitarian Operation."
[28] On 25 February 2023, the European Union imposed sanctions against Primakov as head of the Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States, Compatriots Living Abroad and International Humanitarian Cooperation (Rossotrudnichestvo), which seeks to consolidating public perception of the occupied Ukrainian territories as Russian, and for manifesting support for Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine.
[29] In April 2018, Yevgeny Primakov announced his participation in the United Russia primary election for the State Duma by-election in the Balashov constituency.
On 25 June 2020, he was appointed as head of the Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States, Compatriots Living Abroad and International Humanitarian Cooperation (Rossotrudnichestvo).
[35] On 20 May 2021, he accepted the offer to lead the Program committee of the international youth Forum Russia — Africa : whats next?