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.
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(From right:) Minister Sergei Lavrov with former ministers Yevgeny Primakov and Igor Ivanov.
Russian Post's commemorative stamp of the “Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation” from 2022
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Sergey Viktorovich Lavrov is a Russian diplomat who has served as Minister of Foreign Affairs since 2004. He is the country's longest-serving foreign minister since the Soviet era.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Russia)
…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. The structure of the Russian MFA central office includes divisions, which are referred to as departments. Departments…
Lavrov in 2022
Sergey Lavrov in Moscow, 17 September 2004
Lavrov meets with President George W. Bush in the Oval Office of the White House, 7 March 2006
Lavrov meets with President Barack Obama in the Oval Office of the White House, 7 May 2009