Sergei Ivanovich Kislyak

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Ambassador Sergei Kislyak

Sergei Ivanovich Kisljak ( Russian Сергей Иванович Кисляк ; English Sergey Kislyak ; born September 7, 1950 in Moscow , Soviet Union ) is a former Soviet now Russian diplomat who was Russia's ambassador to the United States from 2008 to 2017 .

Life

In 1973, Kislyak, an ethnic Ukrainian , graduated from the Moscow Physical Engineering Institute, and in 1977 graduated from the Academy of Foreign Trade of the USSR. In the same year he entered the Soviet Union's foreign service . In 1981, Kisljak began serving as Second Secretary in the Permanent Mission of the Soviet Union to the United Nations in New York City . He joined the USSR Embassy in Washington, DC as First Secretary in 1985 and was then promoted to Counselor .

From 1989 to 1991 Kisljak was deputy head of the Department for International Organizations in the Soviet Foreign Ministry. Then Kisljak served two years in the Russian Foreign Ministry as deputy head of the department for international scientific and technical cooperation, before he was appointed director of this department in 1993. In 1995, Kisljak became director of the Security and Disarmament Department.

In 1998 he was appointed ambassador of Russia to Belgium , where he worked until 2003. In Brussels , he also served as Russia's permanent representative to NATO.

On July 26, 2008, Kisljak was appointed Ambassador to the United States by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev . The former US ambassador to Russia, Michael McFaul , described Kisljak as a very active and efficient conveyer of the positions of the Russian government, but with his binding nature and long absence from Moscow, he is not considered a confidante of Putin. Kisljak made headlines around the world in 2017 because he met or spoke to various people from Donald Trump's presidential election campaign in 2016 who initially did not mention it ( Jeff Sessions , Michael T. Flynn , Jared Kushner ). Therefore, Kisljak was temporarily in the focus of the investigation against Trump because of alleged collusion with Russian authorities . According to CNN , US intelligence services saw Kislyak as one of Russia's most important spies and recruits in the US, which the Russian State Department sharply rejected. Kisljak was recalled to Russia in late July 2017. In the meantime, until his successor Anatoly Antonov was accredited , the envoy Denis W. Gonchar took over the official duties.

In August 2017, Kisljak successfully ran for the Russian Federation Council and has been a member of the body for a five-year term since September 20, 2017.

Web links

Commons : Sergei Ivanovich Kisljak  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. A Glimpse of the Russian Soul: Sergey Kislyak. In: Yale Daily News , February 6, 2015.
  2. Owen Matthews, Matthew Cooper: Spy or Diplomat? Meet Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, the Most Radioactive Man in Washington. In: Newsweek , June 22, 2017 (English).
  3. ^ Agreement on the Destruction of Chemical Weapons, the Dismantlement of Decommissioned Nuclear Submarines, and the Physical Protection, Control and Accountancy of Nuclear and Radioactive Material. In: Global Affairs Canada (English).
  4. Veronika Bondarenko: Meet the Russian ambassador at the center of the Trump-Russia controversy. In: Business Insider , March 2, 2017 (English).
  5. Laura King, Mansur Mirovalev: Who is Sergey Kislyak, and how did he become the hottest meeting ticket in Washington? In: The Los Angeles Times , March 2, 2017 (English).
  6. ^ A b Matthew Chance, Emma Burrows, Zachary Cohen: Russian ex-diplomat Kislyak downplays Trump campaign contacts. In: CNN.com , August 27, 2017 (English).
  7. Russian envoy, at heart of US investigations, ends tenure in Washington. In: Reuters .com , July 22, 2017 (English).
  8. Кисляк Сергей Иванович. In: Совет Федерации [Federation Council] (Russian).
predecessor Office successor
Yuri Ushakov Russian Ambassador to the USA
2008–2017
Anatoly Antonov