Vladimir Vladimirovich Kotenev

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Wladimir Wladimirowitsch Kotenjow ( Russian Владимир Владимирович Котенёв ; born July 18, 1957 in Moscow ) is a Russian diplomat . From April 2004 to June 2010 he was the Russian ambassador to Germany. From July 2010 to May 31, 2011, Kotenjow was Managing Director of Gazprom Germania .

Life

His father was already in the diplomatic service, so that Kotenjow grew up in New Delhi for four years . He studied at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations . Here he met his fellow student and today's wife Maria. She studied economics at the same institute. In 1977 Kotenjow was in Germany for the first time. Among other things, he visited Dresden as a student in an exchange program. He was also able to visit London twice.

From 1979 to 1984 Kotenjow worked in the Soviet consulate in Berlin-Dahlem . He was then transferred to East Berlin as a diplomat. He worked there until 1986. Before he was appointed Russian Ambassador to Germany, he had held the post of Director of the Consular Section of the Russian Foreign Ministry.

He and his wife Maria have a daughter and a son.

Kotenjow is a supporter of the Germany-Russia Association - The New Generation , whose board of trustees is his wife Maria.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Berliner Zeitung : Ex-Ambassador Kotenev back in Berlin ( Memento of the original from August 3, 2010 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. dated July 30, 2010 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.berlinonline.de
  2. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from June 2, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gazprom-germania.de
  3. ↑ Berliner Morgenpost : Berlin Walk: The Man from Moscow of December 21, 2008
  4. ↑ Interview of the director of the consular department of the Russian Foreign Ministry, WW Kotenew, of the Finnish television company MTV-3  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.ln.mid.ru  
  5. ^ Der Tagesspiegel : Russisches Parkett from June 8, 2010
  6. ↑ Stern.de : Putin's best man: The good Russian from Berlin ( Memento of the original from September 21, 2010 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. dated December 19, 2006 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stern.de
  7. ↑ Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung from May 15, 2011, page 8, article by Markus Wehner : Russia can be so beautiful. Aristocracy, Gazprom, the Federal President and the CDU: The “new generation” flies to Moscow to network
predecessor Office successor
Sergei Krylov Russian ambassador to Germany
2004–2010 		Vladimir Grinin
personal data
SURNAME Kotenjow, Vladimir Vladimirovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Котенёв, Владимир Владимирович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian diplomat and ambassador to Germany (2004–2010)
DATE OF BIRTH July 18, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow