Russia's ambassador to the United Nations, Vitaly Churkin, died suddenly in New York on Monday after being taken ill at work.
Churkin died one day before his 65th birthday. President Vladimir Putin was deeply upset by the news and had greatly valued Churkin's professionalism and diplomatic talent. Churkin remained at his work post until the last minute. He devoted his whole life to defending the interests of Russia and was to be found on the very front lines and in the most stressful posts.
Vitaly Ivanovich Churkin was born in Moscow on Feb. 21, 1952. As a young boy, he appeared in at least three films—two were about Vladimir Lenin. He later was a graduate of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations and went on to earn a Ph.D. in history from the USSR Diplomatic Academy. Churkin had a distinguished career as a Russian diplomat, joining the foreign ministry in 1974. He was his government’s Special Representative to the talks on Former Yugoslavia in the early 1990s and later served as an ambassador to Belgium (1994-1998) and Canada (1998-2003).
In 2006, he presented his certification to then-Secretary-General Kofi Annan and took up his post as U.N. ambassador, which he held until his death. In more than a decade Churkin was envoy to the world body, and he was widely respected by colleagues, even those whose governments had oppositional relationships with Moscow.
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