Sergey Lavrov
Sergey Viktorovich Lavrov is a Russian diplomat who has served as the foreign minister of Russia since 2004. He is the longest-serving foreign minister since the Tsarist era.
Some of the key events about Sergey Lavrov
- 1972Graduated with honors from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations
- 1981Began diplomatic career at the Soviet embassy in Sri Lanka
- 1988Appointed as First Secretary of the Soviet Permanent Mission to the United Nations
- 1994Appointed as Russia's Permanent Representative to the United Nations
- 2004Appointed as Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation
- 2006Elected Chairman of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe
- 2008Played a key role in negotiating a ceasefire during the Russo-Georgian War
- 2008Defended Russia's military intervention in Georgia, which was widely condemned internationally
- 2011Opposed UN Security Council resolutions against Syria during its civil war
- 2012Received the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" 1st class, Russia's highest civilian honor
- 2014Justified Russia's annexation of Crimea from Ukraine, violating international law
- 2014Denied the presence of Russian troops in eastern Ukraine despite evidence to the contrary
- 2015Participated in negotiations leading to the Iran nuclear deal
- 2016Accused the West of supporting a "coup d'état" in Ukraine, contradicting international consensus
- 2018Dismissed evidence of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election
- 2019Awarded the title of Honorary Doctor by the Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam
- 2019Defended Venezuela's Maduro regime against international criticism
- 2020Rejected findings that Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned with a nerve agent
- 2021Threatened to sever ties with the EU if it imposed sanctions over Navalny's imprisonment
- 2022Justified Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, calling it a "special military operation"
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