Dmitry Fyodorovich Mezentsev is a Russian politician and the Governor of Irkutsk Oblast, General Secretary of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, appointed on 7 June 2012, to hold position from January 1, 2013 to December 31, 2015.
Career
He was appointed to head the foreign affairs and media committees in the upper house of the Duma by Vladimir Putin. His awards include:
Order of Honour
Medal "Foreign Construction of the Baikal-Amur Railway" (Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics).
Politics
Order Foreign Merit to the Fatherland 4th class.