Vladimir Mikhailovich Grinin

Vladimir Mikhailovich Grinin (2010)

Wladimir Michailowitsch Grinin ( Russian Владимир Михайлович Гринин ; born November 15, 1947 in Moscow ) is a Russian diplomat and was Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the Federal Republic of Germany from 2010 to 2018 .

Grinin graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) in 1971 and then entered the diplomatic service. His first post led him to the embassy of the USSR in Bonn. From 1980 to 1982 he attended the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the USSR .

Until 1986 he was a member of the Soviet delegation in the negotiations between the USSR and the USA on disarmament and arms control in Geneva. This was followed by a position as counselor and later head of department at the embassy of the USSR in the GDR and, from 1990, in the Federal Republic of Germany. From 1994 to 1996 Grinin was Director of the 4th European Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation and in this function was responsible for relations with Germany. His first ambassadorial post took him to Austria from 1996 to 2000 . From 2000 to 2003, Grinin held the post of Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The next assignments as ambassador took him to Finland (2003-2006) and Poland (2006-2010).

In June 2010 he was appointed "Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary" of the Russian Federation, which has existed since 1992, in the Federal Republic of Germany and worked in the Russian Embassy in Berlin Unter den Linden . On January 10, 2018, he was replaced in his office by Sergei Yuryevich Netschajew .

Grinin is married and has a daughter. In addition to Russian, he also speaks German, English and French.

Awards

Great Cross of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (June 1, 2018) - for passionate and constant commitment to German-Russian relations

Order of Honor (June 30, 2012)

Order of Friendship (August 20, 2007) - for the contribution to the realization of the foreign policy course of the Russian Federation in Europe

Fonts

Russia's ambassador. My years in Berlin. The New Berlin, Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3-360-01360-6 .

Web links

Commons : Vladimir M. Grinin - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Federal Foreign Office: Award of the Cross of Merit to Vladimir Grinin. Retrieved May 18, 2020 .
↑ Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 08/20/2007 г. № 1085. Retrieved May 18, 2020 (Russian).

predecessor	Office	successor
Valery Popov	Russian ambassador to Austria 1996–2000	Alexander Golovin
Alexander Pazew	Russian Ambassador to Finland 2003–2006	Alexander Rumyantsev
Nikolai Afanasyevsky	Russian Ambassador to Poland 2006–2010	Alexander Alexeyev
Vladimir Kotenev	Russian Ambassador to Germany 2010–2018	Sergei Nechayev

personal data
SURNAME	Grinin, Vladimir Mikhailovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Гринин, Владимир Михайлович (Russian spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Russian diplomat and ambassador
DATE OF BIRTH	November 15, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH	Moscow

[1] Federal Foreign Office: Award of the Cross of Merit to Vladimir Grinin. Retrieved May 18, 2020 .

[2] Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 08/20/2007 г. № 1085. Retrieved May 18, 2020 (Russian).