Alexander Yakovenko (diplomat)
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Alexander Vladimirovich Yakovenko (Russian: Алекса́ндр Влади́мирович Якове́нко; born 21 October 1954) is a Russian diplomat. He served as the Ambassador of Russia to the United Kingdom between January 2011 and August 2019. Since August 2019, he has been rector of the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He is a former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia. While working at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Moscow, he was in charge of multilateral diplomacy (UN, UNESCO and other international organizations, economic and humanitarian cooperation, human rights, environmental cooperation, climate change, education, culture and sport issues). A graduate of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations in 1976, he later gained a Doctor of Law degree. Yakovenko holds the diplomatic rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, and speaks Russian, English and French.
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Alexander Yakovenko | |
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Александр Яковенко | |
Ambassador of Russia to the United Kingdom | |
In office 7 January 2011 – 26 August 2019 | |
President | Dmitri Medvedev Vladimir Putin |
Preceded by | Yury Fedotov |
Succeeded by | Andrey Kelin |
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Born | Alexander Vladimirovich Yakovenko (1954-10-21) 21 October 1954 (age 69) Gomel, Belarusian SSR, Soviet Union |