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Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Russia)

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (MFA Russia; Russian: Министерство иностранных дел Российской Федерации, МИД РФ) 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.

Not to be confused with Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Soviet Union) or Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Empire.

Agency overview

1549 (1549) (original)[2]
25 December 1991 (1991-12-25) (current form)

President of Russia

32/34 Smolenskaya-Sennaya Square, Moscow
55°44′46″N 37°35′3″E / 55.74611°N 37.58417°E / 55.74611; 37.58417

www.mid.ru

Building details

1948

1953

Structure[edit]

The structure of the Russian MFA central office includes divisions, which are referred to as departments. Departments are divided into sections. Russian MFA Departments are headed by Directors and their sections by Heads. According to Presidential Decree 1163 of September 11, 2007, the Ministry is divided into 39 departments.[4] Departments are divided into territorial (relations between Russia and foreign countries, grouped according to conventional regions) and functional (according to assigned functions). Each department employs 30-60 diplomats.


In addition, there are four divisions under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia: the Main Production and Commercial Department for servicing the diplomatic staff under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, the Moscow State Institute of International Relations, the Foreign Ministry College and the Russian Center for International Scientific and Cultural Cooperation.[5]


Outside the departmental structure, there are Ambassadors for special assignments, each responsible for a particular issue of international relations (for example, the Georgian-Abkhaz settlement). The ambassadors for special assignments report directly to the deputy ministers.[5]

(19 October 1991 – 16 October 1992)

Fyodor Shelov-Kovedyayev

(11 November 1991 – 22 February 1992)

Pyotr Aven

(16 October 1992 – 14 November 1994)

Anatoly Adamishin

(30 December 1993 – 24 September 1998)

Igor Ivanov

(3 February 1996 – 25 September 1998)

Boris Pastukhov

(30 October 1998 – 21 February 2002)

Aleksandr Avdeyev

(28 June 2000 – 29 July 2004)

Vyacheslav Trubnikov

(22 February 2002 – 26 December 2005)

Valery Loshchinin

(21 May 2003 – 13 August 2004)

Eleonora Mitrofanova

(8 April 2006 – 22 April 2013)

Andrei Denisov

(24 April 1981 – 21 February 1996)

Boris Kolokolov

(20 March 1991 – 30 December 1993)

Georgy Kunadze

(18 June 1991 – 16 September 1993)

Andrei Kolosovsky

(26 December 1991 – 5 June 2003)

Georgy Mamedov

(22 February 1992 – 3 February 1996)

Boris Pastukhov

(3 April 1992 – 3 November 1994)

Sergei Lavrov

(4 June 1992 – 11 November 1994)

Vitaly Churkin

(8 October 1993 – 20 December 1996)

Sergei Krylov

(30 December 1993 – 15 October 1996)

Aleksandr Panov

(30 December 1993 – 13 June 1996)

Albert Chernyshyov

(3 November 1994 – 6 January 1999)

Nikolai Afanasyevsky

(14 November 1994 – 1 August 1999)

Viktor Posuvalyuk

(20 December 1994 – 13 June 1996)

Yury Dubinin

(9 November 1995 – 28 January 1998)

Vasily Sidorov

(3 February 1996 – 14 September 1998)

Yury Zubakov

(26 February 1996 – 14 April 1997)

Ivan Kuznetsov

(20 December 1996 – 30 October 1998)

Aleksandr Avdeyev

(14 April 1997 – 17 November 2001)

Ivan Sergeyev

(28 January 1998 – 2 March 1999)

Yury Ushakov

(25 May 1998 – 2 August 1999)

Yury Proshin

(30 October 1998 – 17 October 2001)

Vasily Sredin

(16 November 1998 – 25 May 1999)

Leonid Drachevsky

(6 January 1999 – 7 October 2002)

Yevgeny Gusarov

(2 March 1999 – 26 February 2002)

Sergei Ordzhonikidze

(6 July 1999 – 13 September 2001)

Ivan Ivanov

(27 March 1992 – 16 September 1993; 18 October 1999 – 2 April 2001)

Grigory Berdennikov

(31 May 2000 – 29 July 2004)

Viktor Kalyuzhny

(7 July 2000 – 11 March 2004)

Aleksei Fedotov

(7 April 2001 – 22 February 2002)

Valery Loshchinin

(4 October 2001 – 13 August 2004)

Anatoly Safonov

(17 October 2001 – 5 May 2011)

Aleksandr Saltanov

(28 December 2001 – 12 July 2004)

Andrei Denisov

(14 January 2002 – 17 February 2004)

Anatoly Potapov

(18 March 2002 – 10 June 2005)

Sergei Razov

(7 June 2002 – 9 June 2005)

Yury Fedotov

(10 November 2002 – 15 July 2005)

Vladimir Chizhov

(4 July 2003 – 26 July 2008)

Sergei Kislyak

(17 February – 13 August 2004)

Doku Zavgayev

(13 August 2004 – 3 January 2007)

Aleksandr Alekseyev

(5 August 2005 – 24 January 2011)

Aleksandr Yakovenko

(19 October 2005 – 22 April 2013)

Vladimir Titov

(23 March 2000 – 2 March 2004; 3 January 2007 – 26 March 2008)

Aleksandr Losyukov

(26 March 2008 – 5 December 2011)

Aleksei Borodavkin

(6 September 2001 – 20 January 2004; 25 December 2012 – 23 October 2017)

Aleksei Meshkov

(1 June 2013 – 26 July 2017)

Vasily Nebenzya

(29 December 2016 – 21 August 2017)

Anatoly Antonov

(24 January 2011 – 31 January 2018)

Gennady Gatilov

(27 July 1996 – 25 March 2000; 10 June 2005 – 10 September 2019)

Grigory Karasin

(13 August 2004 – 23 September 2009)

Doku Zavgayev

(23 September 2009 – 6 April 2012)

Mikhail Vanin

(6 April 2012 – 22 August 2015)

Sergei Mareyev

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