Vitaly Churkin
| Vitaly Churkin | |
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| Ambassador to the United Nations | |
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Assumed office 1 May 2006 |
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| President |
Vladimir Putin Dmitry Medvedev Vladimir Putin |
| Preceded by | Andrey Denisov |
| Ambassador to Belgium | |
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In office 3 October 1994 – 25 February 1998 |
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| President | Boris Yeltsin |
| Preceded by | Sergey Kislyak |
| Succeeded by | Nikolay Afanasevsky |
| Personal details | |
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Vitaly Ivanovich Churkin Виталий Иванович Чуркин 21 February 1952 Moscow, Soviet Union (now Russia) |
| Alma mater |
Moscow State Institute of International Relations Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union |
Vitaly Ivanovich Churkin (Russian: Виталий Иванович Чуркин; born February 21, 1952) is a Russian diplomat. Ambassador Churkin has served as Russia's Permanent Representative to the United Nations since 2006. He is fluent in Russian, Mongolian, French and English.
Previously he was Ambassador at Large at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (2003-2006), Ambassador to Canada (1998-2003), Ambassador to Belgium and Liaison Ambassador to NATO and WEU (1994-1998), Deputy Foreign Minister and Special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation to the talks on Former Yugoslavia (1992-1994), Director of the Information Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the USSR/Russian Federation (1990-1992).
Churkin was born in Moscow, Russia. In 1963, at age 11, he played Kolya Yemelyanov in the Lev Kulidzhanov movie, Sinyaya Tetrad, about Vladimir Lenin. In 1964, he acted in a movie, Nol tri, about paramedics. In 1967, he played a peasant boy, Fedka, in Mark Donskoy's movie, A Mother's Heart, about Vladimir Lenin, and then he stopped his artistic career to concentrate on English language studies.
He graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations in 1974, and began working for them then, and he received a PhD in History from the USSR Diplomatic Academy in 1981. Subsequently, he was Director of the Information Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation. He also served as a spokesman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, and he was Deputy Foreign Minister from 1992 to 1994.
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