Andrey I. Denisov
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Russian top diplomat
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Andrey Ivanovich Denisov is a Russian diplomat, since April 22, 2013, he is the Russian Ambassador to China, a recently a very important post for Russia. He is fluent in Chinese, as well as English, apart from his native language.
Career Timeline
- From 1973 to 1981, he was translator, as well as an economic and trade representative of the Soviet Union in China.
- From 1981 to 1991, Expert of the International Department of the Central Committee of the CPSU in the People's Republic of China.
- From 1992 to 1997, he served as a senior counselor at the Russian Embassy in China.
- During the 1997 to 2000 period, he was the Director of the Economic Cooperation Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia.
- During that same time, he concurrently served as a member of the administrative board of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia.
- From May 2000 to December 2001 he was the Russian Ambassador to Egypt.
- From December 2001 to July 2004 he was the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs.
- From 2004 to 2006 he was the Permanent Representative of Russia to the United Nations.[1]
- From 2006 to 2013 he was the First Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation.[2]
Letter
In October 2012, public attention was drawn to a letter from Denisov to the Governor of St. Petersburg that the Foreign Ministry was against the new station of the St. Petersburg metro bearing the name of the Romanian capital, Bukharestskaya. According to Denisov, Romania's attitude towards Russia could not be called friendly at the moment. The metro station, from his point of view, should not bear such a name due to the clearly anti-Russian position of official Bucharest on the problem of deploying elements of the American missile defense system in Europe. The diplomat pointed to the destructive activity of Romania in the post-Soviet space, as well as to the support of the Romanian leadership of the Saakashvili regime in Georgia.
The commission, however, did not agree with Denisov. In the opinion of Boris Nikolashchenko, member of the City Planning Council of St. Petersburg, political considerations had no place here: “They tried to encourage us to take part in a momentary political conflict, which is wrong. Much more important is the connection between peoples, history ”.[3]
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