Boris Dmitrievich Pankin

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Boris Pankin

Boris Dmitrijewitsch Pankin ( Russian Борис Дмитриевич Панкин ; scientific trans. Boris Dmitrievič Pankin ; born February 20, 1931 in Frunze , Kyrgyz SSR ) is a Russian writer and former diplomat . In 1991 he was the last regular foreign minister of the Soviet Union for about three months .

After studying journalism at Moscow's Lomonosov University , he worked for Komsomolskaya Pravda from 1953 to 1973 . Subsequently, from 1973 to 1982 he was chairman of the board of the All Union Agency for Copyright of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics . In this role he concluded several international treaties for the USSR, most recently with Austria in 1982.

In 1982 he switched to the diplomatic service. From 1982 to 1990 he represented the USSR as ambassador to Sweden and 1990/91 to Czechoslovakia . During the August putsch in 1991 , as the highest-ranking diplomat, he immediately condemned the coup. Therefore, on August 28 , Gorbachev made him the successor of the hapless Bessmertnych . After barely 100 days, Yeltsin's victory in the power struggle with Gorbachev effectively disempowered the Foreign Ministry and in December 1991 Pankin was appointed ambassador to Great Britain. After the end of the USSR at the end of 1991, he kept the post as Russian ambassador. In 1993 he retired to protest the incipient conflict in Chechnya . He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Global Panel Foundation and of the European Leadership Network .

Works

  • About Abramov, Aitmatow, Ostrowski, Trojepolski and others. Essays . Berlin 1976
  • Rigorous literature. Essays . Berlin 1982
  • The last hundred days of the Soviet Union . London, New York 1996. ISBN 1850438781
  • Ambassador i folkhemmet . 2004. ISBN 9197480010

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Agreement between the Republic of Austria and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on Mutual Copyright Protection" Federal Law Gazette No. 424/1983 of the Republic of Austria
  2. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original dated February 3, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.svoboda.org

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predecessor Office successor
Alexander Bessmertnych Soviet Foreign Minister
1991 		Eduard Shevardnadze
personal data
SURNAME Pankin, Boris Dmitrievich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Панкин, Борис Дмитриевич (Russian); Pankin, Boris Dmitrievič (scientific transliteration)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian writer and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Frunze / Bishkek , Kyrgyz SSR