List of ambassadors of Russia to Ethiopia

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Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
በኢትዮጵያ ፌዴራላዊ ሪ ብሊክ የሩሲያ ፌዴሬሽን አምባሳደር
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Incumbent
Yevgeny Terekhin  [ ru ]
since 27 March 2019
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Style His Excellency
Reports to Minister of Foreign Affairs
Residence The Embassy
Seat Addis Ababa
Appointer The president
Term length At the pleasure of the president
First holder Viktor Kozlov  [ ru ]
Website Russian Embassy - Addis Ababa

The ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia is the official representative of the government of Russia to the government of Ethiopia.

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The ambassador and his staff work at large in the Embassy of Russia in Addis Ababa. [1] The ambassador to Ethiopia is concurrently appointed as the Russian representative to the African Union. [2] The post of Russian ambassador to Ethiopia is currently held by Yevgeny Terekhin  [ ru ], incumbent since 27 March 2019. [3]

Background

Russia established diplomatic relations with Ethiopia on 9 August 1897 and sent its first head of mission, Pyotr Vlasov. The successful development of Russo-Ethiopian relations, at least at the first stage (until 1907), was mainly due to the fact that Russia did not participate in the colonial division of Africa and therefore did not pose any threat to Ethiopia. Russia was the great global power and thus a country like Ethiopia needed an ally to continue its existence. As a rival of British Empire and Italy in global and regional politics, Russia objectively became in Ethiopia a political counterbalance to the imperialist plans of these powers. The Russian mission was tasked with "gaining the trust of the Negus and, if possible, protecting him from the intrigues of our political rivals, especially the British, who pursue such ambitious, predatory goals in Africa."[ citation needed ]

With the end of the tsarist regime in 1917 the diplomatic relations were interrupted, but were resumed by the Soviet Union on 21 April 1943. The first Soviet ambassador, Viktor Kozlov  [ ru ], arrived in the country on 9 March 1944.

List of representatives (1898 – present)

Russian Empire to the Ethiopian Empire (1898 – 1917)

NameTitleAppointmentTerminationNotes
Pyotr VlasovHead of diplomatic mission4 February 189811 February 1900
Arkady Orlov  [ ru ] Chargé d'affaires 19001902
Konstantin Lishin Minister-resident 23 March 190215 January 1906
Sergey Likhachyov Acting Minister-resident 16 January 1906February 1907
Ivan Skarzhinsky Chargé d'affaires 19071908
Ivan Kruzenshtern Chargé d'affaires 19081910
Boris Chemerzin  [ ru ] Chargé d'affaires 8 April 19101917

Soviet Union to Ethiopia (1944 – 1991)

NameTitleAppointmentTerminationNotes
Viktor Kozlov  [ ru ] Envoy 9 March 194428 February 1946 Presented credentials on 1 July 1944
Andrey Timoshchenko  [ ru ] Envoy 28 February 194624 September 1948 Presented credentials on 23 May 1946
Vasily Rybakov  [ ru ] Envoy 24 September 194813 December 1953 Presented credentials on 28 December 1948
Aleksey Korobochkin  [ ru ] Envoy 13 December 195322 November 1955 Presented credentials on 13 February 1954
Borish Karavayev  [ ru ] Envoy (before 22 June 1956)
Ambassador (after 22 June 1956)		22 November 195513 October 1959 Presented credentials on 14 February 1956
Arkady Budakov  [ ru ] Ambassador 13 October 195926 July 1965 Presented credentials on 23 October 1959
Leonid Teplov  [ ru ] Ambassador 26 July 19652 January 1969 Presented credentials on 8 October 1965
Aleksey Shchiborin  [ ru ] Ambassador 2 January 196914 December 1973 Presented credentials on 27 March 1969
Anatoly Ratanov  [ ru ] Ambassador 14 December 197328 November 1978 Presented credentials on 14 January 1974
Boris Kirnasovsky  [ ru ] Ambassador 28 November 197826 June 1981 Presented credentials on 28 December 1978
Konstantin Fomichenko  [ ru ] Ambassador 25 June 198129 March 1985 Presented credentials on 10 July 1981
Gennady Andreyev  [ ru ] Ambassador 29 March 198525 February 1986
Valentin Dimitiev  [ ru ] Ambassador 22 July 198615 August 1990
Lev Mironov  [ ru ] Ambassador 15 August 199025 December 1991

Russian Federation to Ethiopia (1991 – present)

NameTitleAppointmentTerminationNotes
Lev Mironov  [ ru ] Ambassador 25 December 199122 May 1995
Vladimir Volkov  [ ru ] Ambassador 22 May 19959 July 1999
Valery Lipnyakov  [ ru ] Ambassador 9 July 199928 February 2005
Mikhail Afanasyev  [ ru ] Ambassador 28 February 200529 October 2010
Valery Utkin  [ ru ] Ambassador 29 October 201023 June 2014
Vsevolod Tkachenko  [ ru ] Ambassador 23 June 201427 March 2019
Yevgeny Terekhin  [ ru ] Ambassador 27 March 2019

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Embassy". Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Russia) . Retrieved 3 April 2021.
  2. ↑ "Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 27.03.2019 г. № 134" (in Russian). Официальный интернет-портал правовой информации. 27 March 2019. Retrieved 3 April 2021.
  3. ↑ "Ambassador". Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Russia) . Retrieved 2 April 2021.
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