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Structure of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairsedit
The structure of the Russian MFA central office includes divisions, which are referred to as departments. Departments are divided into sections. Russian MFA Departments are headed by Directors and their sections by Heads. According to Presidential Decree 1163 of September 11, 2007, the Ministry is divided into 39 departments.[4] Departments are divided into territorial (relations between Russia and foreign countries, grouped according to conventional regions) and functional (according to assigned functions). Each department employs 30-60 diplomats.
In addition, there are four divisions under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia: the Main Production and Commercial Department for servicing the diplomatic staff under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, the Moscow State Institute of International Relations, the Foreign Ministry College and the Russian Center for International Scientific and Cultural Cooperation.[5]
Outside the departmental structure, there are Ambassadors for special assignments, each responsible for a particular issue of international relations (for example, the Georgian-Abkhaz settlement). The ambassadors for special assignments report directly to the deputy ministers.[5]
Functioning of the Ministry of Foreign Affairsedit
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is a federal executive authority responsible for the development and implementation of state policy and normative-legal regulation in the field of international relations of the Russian Federation[6]
The President of the Russian Federation is the head of the Foreign Ministry.[7]
The main function of the ministry is to develop an overall foreign policy strategy, submit relevant proposals to the President and implement the foreign policy course.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs operates directly and through diplomatic representations and consular offices of the Russian Federation, representations of the Russian Federation to international organisations, and territorial offices of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the territory of Russia. The MFA system includes the central office; foreign institutions; territorial offices; organisations subordinate to the MFA of Russia, which ensures its work on Russian territory. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is guided by the Constitution, federal constitutional laws, federal laws, acts of the President and the Government, and international treaties.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is headed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, who is appointed to the post by the President on the proposal of the Prime Minister. The Minister is personally responsible for the implementation of the powers entrusted to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the implementation of state policy in the relevant area of work. The Minister has deputies, also appointed by the President.
Minister of Foreign Affairsedit
The Minister of Foreign Affairs is the head of the Foreign Ministry. The Minister represents Russia in bilateral and multilateral negotiations and signs international treaties; divides responsibilities between his deputies and the Director-General; approves regulations for the structural subdivisions of the central apparatus; and appoints senior officials from the central apparatus, foreign agencies and territorial bodies.[6]
Russia's Permanent Mission to the United Nationsedit
The Permanent Mission of Russia to the United Nations is one of the most important foreign offices of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Permanent Mission conducts negotiations on behalf of the Russian Federation on the most important problems of international relations. The Representative Office is headed by the Permanent Representative appointed by the President on the proposal of the Minister for Foreign Affairs. The Permanent Representative represents Russia in all UN structures, including meetings of the Security Council. In special cases, the Minister for Foreign Affairs himself may take his place.
In terms of the number of staff, the Russian mission is one of the largest at the UN. There is even a secondary school with a profound study of English.
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the Russian Federation 1 Ministerstvo inostrannyh del Rossijskoj FederaciiMinistry emblemMinistry flagAgency overviewFormed1549 474 years ago 1549 original 2 25 December 1991 31 years ago 1991 12 25 current form Preceding agenciesCollegium of Foreign AffairsMinistry of External Relations 1991 JurisdictionPresident of RussiaHeadquarters32 34 Smolenskaya Sennaya Square Moscow55 44 46 N 37 35 3 E 55 74611 N 37 58417 E 55 74611 37 58417Minister responsibleSergei Lavrov Minister of Foreign AffairsDeputy Minister responsibleVladimir Titov First Deputy MinisterOleg SyromolotovMikhail BogdanovGennadiy GatilovAleksey MeshkovIgor MorgulovSergey Ryabkov 3 Agency executivesSergey Vyazalov Director GeneralGrigoriy Karasin State Secretary 3 Child agencyFederal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States Affairs Compatriots Living Abroad and International Humanitarian CooperationWebsitewww wbr mid wbr ru Building detailsMinistry of Foreign Affairs of Russia main buildingGeneral informationConstruction started1948Completed1953 Contents 1 Structure of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs 2 Functioning of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs 2 1 Minister of Foreign Affairs 2 2 Russia s Permanent Mission to the United Nations 3 List of heads of Foreign Affairs 4 Overseas schools 5 First Deputy Foreign Ministers of the Russian Federation 5 1 Current First Deputy Foreign Minister 6 Deputy Foreign Ministers of the Russian Federation 6 1 Current Deputy Foreign Ministers 7 General Directors of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation 7 1 Current General Director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs 8 See also 9 References 10 External linksStructure of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs editThe structure of the Russian MFA central office includes divisions which are referred to as departments Departments are divided into sections Russian MFA Departments are headed by Directors and their sections by Heads According to Presidential Decree 1163 of September 11 2007 the Ministry is divided into 39 departments 4 Departments are divided into territorial relations between Russia and foreign countries grouped according to conventional regions and functional according to assigned functions Each department employs 30 60 diplomats In addition there are four divisions under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia the Main Production and Commercial Department for servicing the diplomatic staff under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia the Moscow State Institute of International Relations the Foreign Ministry College and the Russian Center for International Scientific and Cultural Cooperation 5 Outside the departmental structure there are Ambassadors for special assignments each responsible for a particular issue of international relations for example the Georgian Abkhaz settlement The ambassadors for special assignments report directly to the deputy ministers 5 Functioning of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs editThe Ministry of Foreign Affairs is a federal executive authority responsible for the development and implementation of state policy and normative legal regulation in the field of international relations of the Russian Federation 6 The President of the Russian Federation is the head of the Foreign Ministry 7 The main function of the ministry is to develop an overall foreign policy strategy submit relevant proposals to the President and implement the foreign policy course The Ministry of Foreign Affairs operates directly and through diplomatic representations and consular offices of the Russian Federation representations of the Russian Federation to international organisations and territorial offices of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the territory of Russia The MFA system includes the central office foreign institutions territorial offices organisations subordinate to the MFA of Russia which ensures its work on Russian territory The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is guided by the Constitution federal constitutional laws federal laws acts of the President and the Government and international treaties The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is headed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs who is appointed to the post by the President on the proposal of the Prime Minister The Minister is personally responsible for the implementation of the powers entrusted to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the implementation of state policy in the relevant area of work The Minister has deputies also appointed by the President Minister of Foreign Affairs edit The Minister of Foreign Affairs is the head of the Foreign Ministry The Minister represents Russia in bilateral and multilateral negotiations and signs international treaties divides responsibilities between his deputies and the Director General approves regulations for the structural subdivisions of the central apparatus and appoints senior officials from the central apparatus foreign agencies and territorial bodies 6 Russia s Permanent Mission to the United Nations edit The Permanent Mission of Russia to the United Nations is one of the most important foreign offices of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs The Permanent Mission conducts negotiations on behalf of the Russian Federation on the most important problems of international relations The Representative Office is headed by the Permanent Representative appointed by the President on the proposal of the Minister for Foreign Affairs The Permanent Representative represents Russia in all UN structures including meetings of the Security Council In special cases the Minister for Foreign Affairs himself may take his place In terms of the number of staff the Russian mission is one of the largest at the UN There is even a secondary school with a profound study of English List of heads of Foreign Affairs editSee also List of Russian foreign ministers nbsp From right Minister Sergei Lavrov with former ministers Yevgeny Primakov and Igor Ivanov Overseas schools editThis section needs expansion You can help by adding to it April 2015 See also List of Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia overseas schools The ministry operates a network of overseas schools for children of Russian diplomats 8 First Deputy Foreign Ministers of the Russian Federation editFyodor Shelov Kovedyayev 19 October 1991 16 October 1992 citation needed Pyotr Aven 11 November 1991 22 February 1992 Anatoly Adamishin 16 October 1992 14 November 1994 Igor Ivanov 30 December 1993 24 September 1998 citation needed Boris Pastukhov 3 February 1996 25 September 1998 citation needed Aleksandr Avdeyev 30 October 1998 21 February 2002 Vyacheslav Trubnikov 28 June 2000 29 July 2004 Valery Loshchinin 22 February 2002 26 December 2005 Eleonora Mitrofanova 21 May 2003 13 August 2004 Andrei Denisov 8 April 2006 22 April 2013 Current First Deputy Foreign Minister edit Vladimir Titov 22 April 2013 present citation needed relations with European countries Deputy Foreign Ministers of the Russian Federation editBoris Kolokolov 24 April 1981 21 February 1996 Georgy Kunadze 20 March 1991 30 December 1993 Andrei Kolosovsky 18 June 1991 16 September 1993 Georgy Mamedov 26 December 1991 5 June 2003 Boris Pastukhov 22 February 1992 3 February 1996 Sergei Lavrov 3 April 1992 3 November 1994 Vitaly Churkin 4 June 1992 11 November 1994 Sergei Krylov 8 October 1993 20 December 1996 Aleksandr Panov 30 December 1993 15 October 1996 Albert Chernyshyov 30 December 1993 13 June 1996 Nikolai Afanasyevsky 3 November 1994 6 January 1999 Viktor Posuvalyuk 14 November 1994 1 August 1999 Yury Dubinin 20 December 1994 13 June 1996 Vasily Sidorov 9 November 1995 28 January 1998 Yury Zubakov 3 February 1996 14 September 1998 Ivan Kuznetsov 26 February 1996 14 April 1997 Aleksandr Avdeyev 20 December 1996 30 October 1998 Ivan Sergeyev 14 April 1997 17 November 2001 Yury Ushakov 28 January 1998 2 March 1999 Yury Proshin 25 May 1998 2 August 1999 Vasily Sredin 30 October 1998 17 October 2001 Leonid Drachevsky 16 November 1998 25 May 1999 Yevgeny Gusarov 6 January 1999 7 October 2002 Sergei Ordzhonikidze 2 March 1999 26 February 2002 Ivan Ivanov 6 July 1999 13 September 2001 Grigory Berdennikov 27 March 1992 16 September 1993 18 October 1999 2 April 2001 Viktor Kalyuzhny 31 May 2000 29 July 2004 Aleksei Fedotov 7 July 2000 11 March 2004 Valery Loshchinin 7 April 2001 22 February 2002 Anatoly Safonov 4 October 2001 13 August 2004 Aleksandr Saltanov 17 October 2001 5 May 2011 Andrei Denisov 28 December 2001 12 July 2004 Anatoly Potapov 14 January 2002 17 February 2004 Sergei Razov 18 March 2002 10 June 2005 Yury Fedotov 7 June 2002 9 June 2005 Vladimir Chizhov 10 November 2002 15 July 2005 Sergei Kislyak 4 July 2003 26 July 2008 Doku Zavgayev 17 February 13 August 2004 Aleksandr Alekseyev 13 August 2004 3 January 2007 Aleksandr Yakovenko 5 August 2005 24 January 2011 Vladimir Titov 19 October 2005 22 April 2013 Aleksandr Losyukov 23 March 2000 2 March 2004 3 January 2007 26 March 2008 Aleksei Borodavkin 26 March 2008 5 December 2011 Aleksei Meshkov 6 September 2001 20 January 2004 25 December 2012 23 October 2017 Vasily Nebenzya 1 June 2013 26 July 2017 Anatoly Antonov 29 December 2016 21 August 2017 Gennady Gatilov 24 January 2011 31 January 2018 Grigory Karasin 27 July 1996 25 March 2000 10 June 2005 10 September 2019 Current Deputy Foreign Ministers edit Yevgeny Ivanov 5 October 2017 present State Secretary relations with CIS countries relations with other state bodies Sergei Ryabkov 15 August 2008 present relations with American countries and security and disarmament issues Mikhail Bogdanov 12 June 2011 present relations with African countries and the Middle East Igor Morgulov 22 December 2011 present relations with Asian countries Oleg Syromolotov 19 March 2015 present on countering terrorism Aleksandr Pankin 23 October 2017 present relations with European organizations countries of Western and Southern Europe Aleksandr Grushko 6 September 2005 23 October 2012 22 January 2018 present Sergei Vershinin 27 March 2018 present Andrei Rudenko 19 September 2019 present General Directors of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation editDoku Zavgayev 13 August 2004 23 September 2009 Mikhail Vanin 23 September 2009 6 April 2012 Sergei Mareyev 6 April 2012 22 August 2015 Current General Director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs edit Sergei Vyazalov 22 August 2015 present See also edit nbsp Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation SVR Foreign relations of Russia Russian Foreign ServicesIn connection with the Moscow building that houses the Ministry s main office All Russia Exhibition Centre Hotel Leningradskaya Ministry of Heavy Industry of Russia Moscow State University Palace of Soviets Academy of Science Riga Seven Sisters Moscow Triumph Palace Warsaw Palace of Culture and ScienceReferences edit The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation 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