Andrey Tatarinov

Andrey Alexeyevich Tatarinov (Russian: Андре́й Алексе́евич Тата́ринов; born 1 January 1951)[1] is a Russian career diplomat and ambassador who since 20 September 2003 holds the diplomatic rank Minister Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the First Class.

[2][3] Tatarinov entered the Department of Vietnamese Linguistics at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations in 1968 and graduated in 1973,[4] after which he entered the diplomatic corps of the Soviet Ministry of Foreign Affairs, serving in numerous posts abroad and in the central offices of the Ministry.

[4] In 1992, Tatarinov was appointed as Minister-Counsellor at the Russian embassy to Thailand, and held this position until 1997, when he was transferred back to Moscow and became Deputy-Director of the Personnel Department of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

[1][4] On 8 March 2005, he was awarded the Medal of Friendship by the government of Vietnam in recognition of his contribution to Russia–Vietnam relations.

[6] From January 2004 to December 2007, he was deputy director of the Department of ASEAN Member States and Common Asian Problems at the Foreign Affairs Ministry, and from 2004 he was also the Special Representative of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia on ASEAN Member States and South Pacific Countries, a position he holds to the current day.