Vitaly Churkin

Quick Facts

Full Name	Vitaly Churkin
Occupation	Diplomat
Date Of Birth	Feb 21, 1952(1952-02-21)
Age	72
Date Of Death	2017-02-20
Birthplace	Moscow
Country	Russia
Horoscope	Aquarius

Vitaly Churkin Biography

Vitaly Churkin is one of the most popular and richest Diplomat who was born on February 21, 1952 in Moscow, Russia. Vitaly Ivanovich Churkin (Russian: Vitalii Ivanovich Churkin , IPA: [vjI’taljIj 21 February 1952 – – 20 February 2017,) was a Russian diplomat and actor who was a child. Churkin was Russia’s Permanent Representative to United Nations from 2006 until his death in the year 2017.

Prior to that, he served as Ambassador-at-Large for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (2003-2006) and the Ambassador of Canada (1998-2003) as well as ambassador to Belgium as well as Liaison Ambassador for NATO as well as the WEU (1994-1998) as well as deputy Secretary of Foreign Affairs and Special Rep to the president of the Russian Federation to the talks regarding Former Yugoslavia (1992-1994), Director of the Information Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation of the USSR (1990-1992). Churkin was proficient with English, French and Mongolian.

In 2008, during the Russo-Georgian War, Churkin proposed a draft resolution imposing a weapons embargo on Georgia. The draft was criticized by the United States who saw it as “a ploy to divert attention from the fact Moscow had yet to pull out of Georgian territory outside two breakaway regions”. The draft was officially introduced on 9 September 2009, and no actions were taken on it.

On 12 June 2014, Churkin briefed on the crisis in Baghdad, Iraq, saying that there was no threat to his colleague Nickolay Mladenov, who is the head of the UN’s political mission in that country. He also noted that the violence there erupts further north.

Churkin earned some recognition in 1986, when as a 34-year-old deputy secretary, was tapped to be selected by ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin as a witness before the United States Congress on the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster. It was reported that this was the first time that an official from a Soviet official was a witness before an Congressional panel that was part of the U.S. House of Representatives. The decision to use Churkin as a junior diplomat resulted from his status as the fluent English speaker within the Soviet Embassy; the media reported that he spoke “an array of English slang”. Churkin’s performances led to him being mocked by the cartoon series of Mark Alan Stamaty’s Washingtoon the political cartoon series that ran in The Washington Post, as Vitaly “Charmyourpantsoff”.

Vitaly Churkin Net Worth

Vitaly Churkin is one of the richest Diplomat from Russia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Vitaly Churkin 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Churkin was born in Moscow. In 1963, aged 11 he acted as Kolya Yemelyanov on his role in the Lev Kulidzhanov movie Sinyaya Tetrad [ru] in which he played Vladimir Lenin. He also was a character in a film Nol tri, about paramedics. The year was 1967. He was an apeasant boy named Fedka in Mark Doskoy’s film A Mother’s Heart, about Vladimir Lenin, and then he ceased his career in the field of art to focus in English study.

His graduation from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations in

1974. He started working for them in 1974 after which he was awarded the PhD in History from the USSR Diplomatic Academy in 1981. Subsequently, he was Director of the Information Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation. He also was a spokesperson on behalf of Russia’s Foreign Ministry. Russian Foreign Ministry, and as the Deputy the Foreign Minister between 1992 until 1994.

Churkin was Russia’s Ambassador to Belgium from 1994 to 1998, and the Ambassador to Canada from 1998 to 2003. Subsequently, he served as Ambassador- at-Large at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 2003 to 2006. He replaced Andrey Denisov as the Permanent Representative to the United Nations on 1 May 2006, when he presented his credentials to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan. He was the Chairman of the Senior Officials of the Arctic Council.

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Vitaly Churkin was the 5th Russian diplomat posted abroad to die unexpectedly, in a remarkably similar fashion, since November 2016, the first such death having occurred on the morning of the U.S. presidential election, 8 November 2016, inside the Russian consulate in NYC, – a fact that caused conspiracy theorists to try to detect a pattern. The apparent pattern was followed by a sudden death of Russian ambassador to Sudan Migayas Shirinskiy in the capital Khartoum in August 2017. Hours after Shirinskiy’s death, Russia’s government- owned news agency TASS published a list of names and brief biographies of senior Russian diplomats (naming five), who had died ″of natural causes″ ″in the past two years″ (in fact, since 30 May 2016, the day when Russian Chargés d’affaires ad interim to Ukraine Andrei Vorobyov, aged 57, died suddenly in Moscow), that included Churkin. His death was likewise cited in a list published in early May 2017 by USA Today — as one in a series of ″dozens of high-profile″ Russians′ deaths, such as GRU chief Igor Sergun′s (January 2016), in ″the past three years in Russia and abroad in suspicious circumstances″.

Facts & Trivia

Vitaly Ranked on the list of most popular Diplomat. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Russia. Vitaly Churkin celebrates birthday on February 21 of every year.

Churkin died in New York City on 20 February 2017, the eve of his 65th birthday. The immediate cause was heart failure, according to Russian diplomat Sergei Ordzhonikidze. The Russian Foreign Ministry noted that Churkin died while at work and expressed condolences to Churkin’s family. India’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Syed Akbaruddin, also expressed his condolences, calling Churkin a “friend” and a “stalwart diplomat”. Former President Barack Obama’s UN Ambassador, Samantha Power, tweeted that she was “devastated” and described Churkin as a “diplomatic maestro” who did all he could to bridge U.S.-Russia differences. Britain’s ambassador to the UN, Matthew Rycroft, tweeted that he was “absolutely devastated”, describing Churkin as “a diplomatic giant & wonderful character”.

What happened to Vitaly Churkin?

Death. Churkin died in New York City on 20 February 2017 , the eve of his 65th birthday. The immediate cause was heart failure, according to Russian diplomat Sergei Ordzhonikidze. The Russian Foreign Ministry noted that Churkin died while at work and expressed condolences to Churkin’s family.

Who is the UN ambassador to Russia?

Ambassador Vasily Nebenzya
Assumed office 27 July 2017
President| Vladimir Putin
Preceded by| Vitaly Churkin

Who is present president of UNO?

President of the United Nations General Assembly
Website| un.org/en/ga/

Why is Russia a permanent member of the UN?

The Russian Federation succeeded to the Soviet Union’s seat, including its permanent membership on the Security Council in the United Nations after the 1991 dissolution of the Soviet Union , which originally co-founded the UN in 1945.

Did the Soviet Union refuse to join the United Nations?

Roosevelt actively worked to convince Stalin to join the UN. The Soviet Union insisted that there be veto rights in the Security Council and that alterations in the United Nations Charter be unanimously approved by the five permanent members.