Vitaly Ivanovich Tschurkin

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Witali Iwanowitsch Tschurkin ( Russian Виталий Иванович Чуркин , scientific transliteration Vitalij Ivanovič Čurkin ; * February 21, 1952 in Moscow ; † February 20, 2017 in New York City ) was a Russian diplomat . Since 2006 he has been the Permanent Representative ( Ambassador ) of Russia to the United Nations and to the United Nations Security Council .

Career

Tschurkin was the only child Ivan Tschurkin and his wife Maria, who let him attend a school specializing in the English language . He also appeared as a child actor in the two Lenin biographies The Blue Booklet (1964) and The Heart of a Mother (1966), but did not continue his acting career. Instead, he began studying history and foreign languages ​​at the Moscow State Institute for International Relations (MGIMO) in 1969 . Following this, he began his service in Soviet diplomacy in 1974 .

Tschurkin, who spoke French and Mongolian in addition to English , worked as a translator in the Foreign Ministry until 1979 and translated, among other things, at the SALT II negotiations in Geneva . From 1979 he worked in the United States Department of the State Department and in 1982, the historian , who has now earned a doctorate, moved to the Soviet embassy in Washington . In 1987 Churkin returned to Moscow and worked in the foreign policy department of the Central Committee of the CPSU . From 1989 to 1990 he was press secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and then head of the ministry's information department. He kept this post in the Foreign Ministry of the Russian Federation after the collapse of the Soviet Union . From 1992 to 1994 Tschurkin was Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev . From 1994 he was the Russian ambassador in Brussels , from 1998 to 2003 in Ottawa . After that he was ambassador for special tasks in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation for several years. On April 8, 2006, he was appointed UN Ambassador to Russia and its permanent representative on the UN Security Council at the United Nations headquarters in New York . There he earned the nickname "Mister No".

Tschurkin died on February 20, 2017, the day before his 65th birthday. He had been admitted to New York Presbyterian Hospital in cardiac arrest that morning after being found passed out in his office. An autopsy was then ordered and carried out. He was buried on February 24, 2017 in the Trojekurovo cemetery in Moscow.

Tschurkin was married and had a daughter and a son. His wife Irina also works in the diplomatic service and his daughter Anastasija is a journalist for the Russian foreign broadcaster Russia Today .

Others

In Russia, Churkin was considered a master of crisis situations, a diplomat who tried to assert Russia's interests at the UN, for example in the 2008 Caucasus War , the “Arab Spring” , the civil war in Syria or the Ukraine crisis . He also fought fierce verbal battles with the Western diplomats. In an emotional speech in December 2016, the American UN Ambassador Samantha Power accused Russia and its allies of a “complete collapse of humanity” in Aleppo . She asked Churkin: “Aren't you ashamed at all? Are you unable to feel such a thing? Doesn't the execution of a child get under your skin? Is there nothing you wouldn't lie about? ”The Russian ambassador replied that Power was acting as if she were Mother Teresa and questioning the moral conviction of her statements:“ In the end, God will judge who is really to blame. ”

literature

  • Кто есть кто в России и в ближнем зарубежье: справочник (Who is who in Russia and in the near abroad: a manual). Издательский дом Новое время (Verlag Neue Zeit), Moscow 1993, ISBN 5-86564-033-X .

Web links

Commons : Witali Iwanowitsch Tschurkin  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Igor Lensky : НЕПАРКЕТНЫЙ ДИПЛОМАТ . In: Московский железнодорожник ( Online . On stopstamp.ru, accessed on February 22, 2017)
  2. ↑ a b Виталий Чуркин биография . On persones.ru, accessed February 22, 2017
  3. ↑ Permanent Representative ( Memento of the original dated February 21, 2017 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. . Retrieved February 22, 2017 from russiaun.ru @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / russiaun.ru
  4. ↑ NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF RUSSIAN FEDERATION PRESENTS CREDENTIALS . May 1, 2006 from un.org , accessed February 22, 2017
  5. ↑ Russian Ambassador to the United Nations died unexpectedly . February 20, 2017 from spiegel.de , accessed February 20, 2017
  6. ↑ Richard Roth, Holly Yan: Vitaly Churkin, Russia's ambassador to UN, dies suddenly at 64 . February 21, 2017 from edition.cnn.com , accessed February 22, 2017
  7. ↑ Jamie Schram, Lia Eustachewich: Russian ambassador to UN dies after passing out . February 20, 2017 from nypost.com , accessed February 20, 2017
  8. ↑ Russian UN diplomat's death needs further study . February 21, 2017 from 1011now.com, accessed February 22, 2017
  9. ↑ Виталия Чуркина похоронили на Троекуровском кладбище в Москве. RIA Novosti, February 24, 2017, accessed February 24, 2017 (Russian).
  10. ↑ Телеканал BBC извинился перед RT за клевету в прямом эфире . January 15, 2015 from russian.rt.com ; Retrieved February 22, 2017 (Russian)
  11. ↑ Russia's UN envoy Churkin replies to CNN anchor Amanpour . On March 23, 2014 from rt.com , accessed on February 22, 2017 (English)
  12. ↑ 10 лет в ООН: чем запомнился Виталий Чуркин . In: РБК . ( rbc.ru [accessed November 23, 2017]).
  13. ↑ juergen.klatzer: UN Ambassador of the USA Samantha Power in an emotional appeal to Aleppo: “Aren't you ashamed?” ( Kurier.at [accessed on November 23, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Tschurkin, Vitali Ivanovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Чуркин, Виталий Иванович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow , Soviet Union
DATE OF DEATH 20th February 2017
Place of death New York City , New York , United States