AFP's former Moscow bureau chief Christopher Boian became on Wednesday the head of RIA Novosti's foreign languages department.
"We are really glad that Chris Boian decided to join us with his immense professional experience of media work," said Maxim Filimonov, RIA Novosti's deputy editor-in-chief.
"He faces the difficult task of raising the work of the multinational team of RIA Novosti's foreign language department to a new level," he said.
More than 100 translators, correspondents and style-editors, both Russians and foreigners, work in the department, preparing news in English, Chinese, German, French, Spanish, Persian and Arabic.
Boian was with AFP for more than 20 years and helped turn the news agency into one of the world's top media outlets.
Boian, who has been writing about Russia for years, is also a fluent Russian speaker.
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