Igor Ivanov
| Igor Ivanov | |
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| Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation | |
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In office 2004–2007 |
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| President | Vladimir Putin |
| Preceded by | Vladimir Rushailo |
| Succeeded by | Valentin Sobolev |
| Foreign Minister of Russia | |
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In office 30 September 1998 – 24 February 2004 |
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| President |
Boris Yeltsin Vladimir Putin |
| Preceded by | Yevgeny Primakov |
| Succeeded by | Sergey Lavrov |
| Personal details | |
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23 September 1945 Moscow, Soviet Union |
| Alma mater | Moscow State Linguistic University |
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Igor Sergeyevich Ivanov (born 23 September 1945) is a Russian politician who was Foreign Minister of Russia from 1998 to 2004.
Ivanov was born in 1945 in Moscow to a Russian father and a Georgian mother (Elena Sagirashvili). In 1969 he graduated at the Maurice Thorez Moscow Institute of Foreign Languages (Moscow State Linguistic University). He joined the Soviet Foreign Ministry in 1973 and spent a decade in Spain. He returned to the Soviet Union in 1983. In 1991 he became the ambassador in Madrid.
He was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs on September 11, 1998. As Russian foreign minister, Ivanov was an opponent of NATO's action in Yugoslavia. He was also an opponent of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Ivanov played a key role in mediating a deal between Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze and opposition parties during Georgia's "Rose Revolution" in 2003.
Ivanov was succeeded to the post of foreign minister by Sergey Lavrov in 2004, and appointed by President Vladimir Putin to the post of Secretary of the Security Council, followed shortly by the appointment of Sergey Lavrov as foreign minister.
On 9 July 2007 he submitted his resignation. On 18 July, President Putin accepted Ivanov's resignation and appointed Valentin Sobolev as acting secretary,
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