Deputy Ministers of Foreign Affairs. Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.
Education:
1972 Moscow state institute international relations.
Positions held:
Since 2011 Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.
2008-2011 Director of the Department of International Organizations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.
2004-2008 Senior Advisor to the Office of the UN Secretary General.
2004 Acting Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN Security Council.
1999-2004 First Deputy Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN.
1997-1999 Deputy Director of the Department of International Organizations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.
1992-1997 Advisor, Head of the Political Referral Office of the Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the UN.
1984-1992 Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Department of International Organizations; first secretary, adviser, expert, head of department.
1980-1984 USSR Embassy in Jordan; second secretary, first secretary.
1977-1980 USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Department of International Organizations; third secretary.
1972-1977 USSR Embassy in Egypt; attache, third secretary.
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Sergey Viktorovich Lavrov - Russian statesman, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (since 2004), permanent member of the Russian Security Council. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary. Lavrov is a full holder of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland.
Education of Sergei Lavrov
Sergei Lavrov in his youth
Sergei Viktorovich Lavrov was born in 1950 into a family of employees of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Trade. According to some reports, as a child he bore the surname Kalantarov, after his father, an Armenian, and after the divorce, his mother remarried, and his stepfather adopted Sergei, giving him his surname Lavrov.
Sergei Viktorovich studied at Moscow school No. 607 with in-depth study in English. He graduated with a silver medal.
IN school years, S.V. Lavrov was fond of exact sciences. He liked physics, and he applied not only to MGIMO, but also to the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute. However, at MGIMO entrance tests began a month earlier, and Sergei Lavrov became a diplomat.
Sergey Lavrov in his student years (Photo: uznayvse.ru)
Career of Sergei Lavrov
Lavrov is said to be a “career diplomat.” He began his career as an intern, attaché at the USSR Embassy in the Republic of Sri Lanka (1972 - 1976).
From 1976 to 1981 S.V. Lavrov held the positions of third and second secretary of the department of international economic organizations of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
From 1981 to 1988, Sergei Lavrov was First Secretary, Advisor, Senior Advisor of the Permanent Mission of the USSR to the UN in New York. From 1988 to 1992 - deputy, first deputy head of the Department of International Economic Organizations, head of the same department of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Sergei Viktorovich was a member of the CPSU until 1991.
From 1991 to 1992, Lavrov was head of the Department of International Organizations of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 1992, Sergei Viktorovich was appointed director of the Department of International Organizations and global problems Russian Foreign Ministry.
Then Sergei Lavrov climbed the career ladder very successfully. On April 3, 1992, he was appointed Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia. Lavrov oversaw the activities of the Department of International Organizations and International Economic Cooperation of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Office of Human Rights and International Cultural Cooperation of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Department for CIS State Affairs of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
1995 Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations Sergei Lavrov (left) and emigrant artist, master of Russian psychological portrait Mikhail Aleksandrovich Verbov (right) (Photo: Ilona Kolesnichenko/TASS)
Sergey Viktorovich Lavrov held this post until January 1994. Since March 1993, Sergei Lavrov has been Deputy Chairman of the Interdepartmental Commission on the participation of the Russian Federation in international organizations of the UN system. Since November 1993 - co-chairman of the Interdepartmental Commission for Coordinating the Participation of the Russian Federation in Peacekeeping Activities.
S.V. Lavrov was the permanent representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations from 1994 to 2004.
2001 Russian delegation in the Security Council chamber - Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN Sergei Lavrov, Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov (center) and Deputy Minister Alexei Meshkov (right) (Photo: Eduard Pesov/TASS)
Sergei Viktorovich coped well with all his responsibilities. His activities were noted, and on March 9, 2004, by decree of the Russian President, Lavrov was appointed to the post of Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.
In May 2004, after the President-elect for the next term took office, Sergei Lavrov was reappointed to the post of Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.
2005 Russian President Vladimir Putin, Secretary of the Security Council Igor Ivanov, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (from left to right) before the start of a meeting with Security Council members in Novo-Ogarevo (Photo: Alexey Panov/TASS)
In May 2008, after Dmitry Medvedev took office as President of the Russian Federation, Sergei Viktorovich was reassigned to the same post.
On May 21, 2012, Sergei Lavrov once again received the portfolio of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation after President Vladimir Putin took office.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, awarded the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, 2nd degree, and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (from left to right) (Photo: Mikhail Klimentyev/TASS)
Sergey Viktorovich - Chairman of the Russian Commission for UNESCO (since April 2004).
Since January 11, 2010, Lavrov has been working in the government commission on economic development and integration.
Public speeches of Sergei Lavrov
In April 2011, speaking on the occasion of Orthodox Easter, Sergei Lavrov said that “it is impossible to take the path of sustainable development while relying on the ideas of liberal capitalism.” According to the minister, the global financial and economic crisis is now “making us look at such moral concepts as self-restraint and responsibility in a new light.”
S.V. Lavrov also noted that “today the question of moral guidelines, of truth, is more relevant than ever, not only for an individual or a nation, but also for international relations and the world as a whole.” “The creation of a harmonious and fair system of international relations is hardly possible without appealing to the common moral denominator that has always existed among the world’s major religions, without recognizing the highest moral law above us,” argued Sergei Lavrov.
Sergei Viktorovich Lavrov, as Minister of Foreign Affairs, defends the revival of Russia's foreign policy independence. If at the very beginning of the century Russia’s efforts were mainly aimed at strengthening cooperation with the West, especially in the field of security and the fight against terrorism, then last years foreign policy The country is becoming increasingly multilateral. Minister Lavrov himself has repeatedly stated that Russia is in international sphere focuses on the multipolarity of the world and opposes the West’s use of “double standards” and the attempts of any state to dominate others.
2015 Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (left) speaking at the general political discussion of the 38th session of the UNESCO General Conference (Photo: Alexander Shcherbak/TASS)
Sergei Lavrov, as the head of Russian diplomacy, participated in negotiations on the Middle East settlement, on Iran’s nuclear programs and North Korea. He actively opposed the deployment of elements of the American missile defense system in Europe and against the separatism of Kosovo.
Sergei Viktorovich Lavrov, with his professional work, arouses the respect and interest of foreign media and fellow diplomats.
2011 Sergei Lavrov and Hillary Clinton signed a number of agreements in Washington (Photo: Imago-Images/TASS)
Lavrov is remembered for his many vetoes in the Security Council, earning himself the nickname "Mr. No." One of his idols is Alexander Gorchakov, who was Minister of Foreign Affairs for about 30 years Russian Empire, who became the head of its diplomacy after the defeat in the Crimean War. “He managed to restore Russian influence in Europe after defeat in the war, and he did this not with the help of weapons, but with diplomacy,” Sergei Lavrov said about Gorchakov.
Sergei Viktorovich is sometimes quite harsh in his interactions with foreign colleagues. Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton could also doubt Lavrov's upbringing. He refused to talk to her on the phone several times, and once called her hysterical.
2016 Russian Foreign Minister S. Lavrov met with US Secretary of State D. Kerry in Geneva (Photo: Alexander Shcherbak/TASS)
Hillary's predecessor, Condoleezza Rice, also regularly fell under his escapades. “He knew exactly what button to push to make her angry,” recalled David Kramer of Rice’s team.
Knowledgeable people They categorically argue that Lavrov’s supposedly unrestrained attacks are in fact a well-calculated move. As political scientist Georgy Mirsky explained: “He is a good diplomat. He knows what and how much. Whatever he says, he always expresses the official line of Moscow.”
Scandals, rumors about Sergei Lavrov
In mid-September 2008, a scandalous phone conversation between Lavrov and British Foreign Secretary David Miliband. A number of British newspapers, citing sources in the Foreign Ministry, accused Lavrov of using obscene language in a conversation, namely the words “ Who the fuck are you to lecture me?” (“Who the fuck are you to lecture me?!”).
The Russian Foreign Ministry denied the use of profanity by its head: “Sergei Viktorovich Lavrov is a very experienced diplomat, he always correctly comments on certain events in international life.”
A day later, Sergei Lavrov himself undertook to clarify the situation. At a press conference in Sukhumi, he admitted using one obscene word. But Lavrov immediately misspoke, saying that it was a quote. “Miliband did his best to protect Saakashvili as a big democrat. In order to acquaint Miliband with a slightly different assessment, I had to tell him about the characterization of Saakashvili that our colleague from one of the European country. This description sounded like “fucking lunatic”. ... This was a quote that was intended to show the British minister alternative views on the figure of the current president of Georgia,” explained Sergei Viktorovich Lavrov (“Kommersant”, September 17, 2008).
Statements by foreign colleagues about Sergei Lavrov
Former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan described Sergei Lavrov as follows:
"Wise and witty." “I learned to appreciate both his wit and his wisdom. I consider him a friend." "Mr. Lavrov is among the most respected."
Former Austrian Foreign Minister Ursula Plassnik: "He is one of the smartest, most informed and respected foreign policy players on the world stage." “Sergey Lavrov is an unsurpassed specialist.”
American diplomat with many years of experience, former ambassador US at the UN Richard Holbrooke (died 2010): “He is a consummate diplomat who serves Moscow with intelligence, energy and no small amount of arrogance.” "One of the best diplomats of our time."
2016. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan (from left to right) during a meeting. (Photo: Alexander Shcherbak/TASS)
Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Labor and Social Policy of Bulgaria, former Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivaylo Kalfin: “One of the best diplomats of our time. A person who is very good at identifying the goals he pursues and choosing the way in which he defends them. Sometimes with humor, sometimes with sarcasm, sometimes with a sharp reaction.”
Marital status, hobbies Sergei Lavrov
Sergei Lavrov with his wife, Maria and daughter, Ekaterina (Photo: stuki-druki.com)
While a third-year student at MGIMO, Sergei Lavrov got married and has a daughter, Ekaterina, with his wife Maria. His wife, Maria Aleksandrovna Lavrova, a philologist by training, a teacher of Russian language and literature, worked in the library of the Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the UN. Daughter Ekaterina Vinokurova was born in New York, graduated from Columbia University (political science) and a master's degree in economics in London. Ekaterina Lavrova's husband is businessman Alexander Vinokurov. Lavrov’s daughter is the director of the Russian branch of the Christie’s auction house. Sergei Lavrov has a grandson and granddaughter.
Sergei Lavrov during rafting
Sergei Viktorovich is fond of sports and at any convenient moment devotes himself to his favorite skiing, football (Lavrov is a fan of Spartak Moscow) and rafting. His hobby is writing poetry, he is the author of the MGIMO anthem. He plays the guitar and collects political jokes, most of which he knows by heart and loves to tell.
Recently, while discussing politics, a good friend of mine attacked me like an angry panther: “What? You wrote Lavrov as non-Russian?? He’s Russian - his last name ends with “ov”!”
But the fact is that, starting from the emergence of a state called the Russian Federation on December 25, 1991, and until now, we have not had not a single Russian foreign minister.
The first Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation from 1990 to 1996 was Andrei Vladimirovich Kozyrev. There is no information about his parents on Wikipedia, but it is mentioned that since 2001 he has been one of the members of the presidium of the Russian Jewish Congress. And on the website jewage.org he is listed as one of the famous Jews.
Andrei Vladimirovich Kozyrev, first Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (photo from here).
Let's not argue with Jewish sites and organizations. They probably know who belongs and who doesn’t.
For some reason, there is a popular opinion among ordinary citizens that if you are a Jew, you must be smart. But here’s what the site compromat.ru writes about Kozyrev
It was precisely this task that the unfortunate minister Andrei Kozyrev failed to cope with, who during his lifetime turned into a “walking joke” and amazed with his servility, amateurism and intellectual squalor. After five years of activity of “dear Andrei” in the Foreign Ministry’s field, his owner gradually ceased to be taken seriously and to show due “signs of attention” at the international level. ()
Kozyrev’s fate after his resignation is quite typical for non-Russians. Having milked Mother Russia and earned themselves capital and a decent pension, they move abroad.
Currently lives with his family in Miami, USA, criticizes political system in Russia and the activities of President Putin ()
On January 9, 1996, Kozyrev was replaced by Yevgeny Maksimovich Primakov, who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs until September 11, 1998.
Evgeny Maksimovich Primakov, second Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (photo from here).
“I grew up in Tbilisi, I love this city, this country very much. It’s very hard for me that I can’t afford to get on a plane, fly there for a day and return. And, alas, I won’t be able to while I’m a minister. When I leave this post, I will definitely make such forays." E. M. Primakov ()
Until now, there has been no reliable information about the nationality of Primakov’s mother. Various sources wrote that she lived in Tbilisi, where she worked as an obstetrician-gynecologist. Any reasonable person understands that a doctor in general, and even more so a lucrative profession like a gynecologist, is a place increased concentration Jews, but such an argument, of course, cannot be considered proof. However, literally a month ago, on January 25, 2016, Primakov’s book “Meetings at Crossroads” went on sale.
“There is a romantic story connected with my maternal grandmother, a Jewish woman. Having a wayward character, she, against the will of my great-grandfather, the owner of the mill, married a simple worker, who was also Russian, hence the name Primakov.” Primakov E. M., Meetings at crossroads, ISBN: 978-5-227-05787-7 ()
So, the maternal grandmother is Jewish, which makes Primakov’s mother a half-Jew (if, of course, we believe Primakov that the grandmother married a Russian).
Now to my father. Primakov writes that his last name was Nemchenko and that “he and his mother diverged.” However, the site compromat.ru gives a different version.
Zhenya Primakov was brought to the city of Tbilisi in November 1929. That is, a few days after birth. At that time Tbilisi was still called Tiflis.
What made the mother of the newborn, Anna Yakovlevna, hastily leave Kyiv and move with the baby from Tiflis? Who was Zhenya's father and why was he not with his son? Whose surname did the boy receive - his mother's or his father's?
Primakov's pedigree is a sealed secret. From the published autobiography of Yevgeny Maksimovich, one can only learn that his father died when he was three months old, and that he was raised by a single mother who worked as a doctor in the clinic of a spinning and knitting mill.
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The real father of Zhenya Primakov was not the man who died in 1929, but the literary critic Irakli Andronikov, who lived until the eighties. He did not recognize his son, but did not abandon him to the mercy of fate; he helped Zhenya’s mother settle in Tiflis, where, immediately after moving from Kyiv, she was given two rooms in former house tsarist general. Irakli Luarsabovich’s participation in the fate of his son did not end there. ()
The biography of the real (according to compromat.ru) pope, Irakli Luarsabovich Andronnikov, is easy to follow.
[Irakli Luarsabovich Andronikov] was born on September 28, 1908 in St. Petersburg, where at that time he was studying at the university at the Faculty of Law, his father was the future successful metropolitan lawyer Luarsab Nikolaevich Andronikashvili, who came from a famous noble family in Georgia. In 1917, the Provisional Government even appointed the father of young Irakli as secretary of the criminal department of the Senate. [...] Irakli Andronikov’s mother, Ekaterina Yakovlevna Gurevich, came from a famous Jewish family ()
That is, Primakov’s father is half Jew, half Georgian. I would like to draw the reader’s attention to how non-Russians like to change their non-Russian surnames by adding the typically Russian ending “ov”. But at the same time they often leave their national names. There was Andronikashvili, but he changed his last name to Andronikov and immediately became Russian for the average person. But the Georgian name Irakli remained. And dad’s name, Luarsaba, is more difficult to change in documents. This Georgian could officially become at least Ivan Petrov, but nevertheless Ivan Luarsabovich Petrov, which a person with a developed national instinct will immediately tell “be careful, Luarsab’s child cannot be Russian!”
In general, in determining nationality, searching and analyzing facts is sometimes not necessary - just looking at photographs of the subject is enough. In the photo below we see a typical non-Russian family.
Family of non-Russians. (left) Evgeny Maksimovich Primakov with his wife Laura Vasilievna Kharadze and children. (right) E. M. Primakov with his son Sasha. (photo from here).
Judging by the photographs of young Yevgeny Maksimovich, you begin to doubt that there was even one Russian in this man’s ancestry. It was not for nothing that at the Institute of Oriental Studies, where he studied, he had the nickname “Chinese”.
On September 11, 1998, Primakov was replaced as Russian Foreign Minister by Igor Sergeevich Ivanov.
Igor Sergeevich Ivanov, third Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (photo from here).
He received his Russian surname from his father, information about whom could not be found on the Internet (and as we already know, surnames can be deceiving). But the origin of the mother is well known.
Mother - Elena (Eliko) Sagirashvili - a traffic police officer, a native of the Georgian village of Akhmeta, located in the Pankisi Gorge. ()
Igor Ivanov’s mother is Elena Davydovna Sagirashvili, originally from the city of Tianeti, north of Tbilisi. ()
In general, the fact that Mr. Ivanov is non-Russian can be clearly seen from his photograph, without any biography.
We wrote above that Ivanov replaced Primakov. In fact, all the years while Primakov was minister, Ivanov was his first deputy. Having become prime minister, Primakov recommended Ivanov for the post of head of the Foreign Ministry. For those who do not understand, one non-Russian with Georgian roots gave the position to another non-Russian with Georgian roots.
Sergei Viktorovich Lavrov, fourth Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (photo from here).
Here you go Russian name, and Russian patronymic and “Russian” surname with “ov”. When I look at this face, it is obvious to me without any evidence that in front of me is at least a semi-khach. But for those who want facts...
At a meeting with students at the Russian-Armenian Slavic University, one of the students asked Sergei Lavrov if his Armenian roots help him in his work. To which Mr. Lavrov, whose father is an Armenian from Tbilisi, replied: “My roots are actually Georgian - my father is from Tbilisi, but my blood is really Armenian” ()
I have not yet found information on Mother Lavrova. Apparently we have to wait until he, like Primakov, starts writing memoirs.
I will not bore the reader with a discussion of how it happened that in the Russian state the post of Minister of Foreign Affairs has been occupied by various Jews, Armenians and Georgians for at least 15 years (we will talk about the ministers of the Soviet period separately). Just remember that if you are Russian, then you and your children will have a very difficult time fighting for their place in the sun. Non-Russians, who have occupied places in prestigious universities and high official positions, will not simply give them up, which means that any Russian will have to be several times better in order to win the competition.
