Leonid Moiseyev

Leonid Petrovich Moiseyev
Ambassador of Russia to Singapore
In office 31 October 2011 – 20 February 2015
Preceded by	Andrey Rozhkov
Succeeded by	Andrey Tatarinov
Ambassador of Russia to Australia
In office 20 July 2001 – 10 November 2005
Preceded by	Rashit Khamidulin
Succeeded by	Alexander Viktorovich Blokhin
Personal details
Born	(1948-01-16) January 16, 1948
Education	Moscow Institute of International Relations
Occupation	diplomat

Ambassador Leonid Moiseev with a veteran from the former Soviet Union, Melbourne, 1 May 2005

Leonid Petrovich Moiseyev (Russian: Леонид Петрович Моисеев) (born 1948 in Vladivostok) is a Russian diplomat.

Educated at the Moscow Institute of International Relations, Moiseyev has been a member of first the Soviet and then the Russian diplomatic service since 1973. He has served mainly in the People's Republic of China (he is fluent in Chinese) and Japan.

From 1994 to 2001 Moiseev was first Deputy Director and then Director of the First Asian Directorate of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, dealing with issues relating to China, Taiwan, North Korea, South Korea and Mongolia, and was also a Member of the Collegium of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.

Moiseyev was the Ambassador of Russia to Australia from 20 July 2001 to 10 November 2005, and the ambassador to Singapore between 2011 and 2015.

Awards

• Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" 2 class (March 4, 1998)
• Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" 1 class (January 15, 2004)
• Decoration For Impeccable Service for 30 years (April 10, 2008)

External links

• Ambassador Moiseev's speech to the Royal United Services Institute of South Australia on Russia's security outlook, March 2004
• Speech by Ambassador Moiseev at the grave of Alexey Dmitrievich Putiata, First Russian Imperial Consul to Melbourne