The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation is the central government institution charged with leading the foreign policy and foreign relations of Russia. It is a continuation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, which was under the supervision of the Soviet Ministry of External Relations. Sergei Lavrov is the current foreign minister.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia main building
(From right:) Minister Sergei Lavrov with former ministers Yevgeny Primakov and Igor Ivanov.
Vitaly Churkin
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Vitaly Ivanovich Churkin was a Russian diplomat. As a child actor, he starred in three films The Blue Notebook, Nol tri, and A Mother's Heart. Churkin served as Russia's Permanent Representative to the United Nations from 2006 until his death in 2017.
Vitaly Churkin as Kolya Yemelyanov and Mikhail Kuznetsov as Vladimir Lenin in the 1963 Soviet film The Blue Notebook.
Awarding the order "For Merit to the Fatherland" IV class. 20 February 2012
Barack Obama meets with Vladimir Putin, Vitaly Churkin and other Russian representatives to discuss Syria and ISIL, 29 September 2015