Sergei Ordzhonikidze

His mother, Eteri (1923-2010), was the adopted daughter of Georgian-Soviet revolutionary Sergo Ordzhonikidze.

[citation needed] Between 1991 and 1996, he was Deputy Permanent Representative of the Soviet Union and then of the Russian Federation to the United Nations in New York.

From 1996 to 1999, he served as Director of the Department of International Organizations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Ordzhonikidze served as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, a post he had held from 1999 to 2002.

[3] He holds the diplomatic rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, and has received three state awards.