Briefing by Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova, Moscow, February 22, 2017 (Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation)
(World News Russia)

(Source: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation) Death of Russia`s Permanent Representative to the UN Vitaly Churkin As you know, Vitaly Churkin, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations and an outstanding diplomat, died suddenly on February 20, a day before he would have turned 65. Vitaly Churkin was born in Moscow on February 21, 1952. He graduated from MGIMO University of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1974 and devoted his life to diplomatic service, rising from an assistant at the ministry`s translations department to Russia`s Permanent Representative to the UN in New York. Churkin held...