Biography

Sergei Victorovich Lavrov is a Russian diplomat and politician who has served as the Foreign Minister of Russian Federation since 2004. Lavrov served as the Permanent Representative of Russian Federation to the United Nations from 1994 to 2004. Lavrov was born on 21 March 1950 in Moscow, to an Armenian father from Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, and a Russian mother from Noginsk, Russian SFSR. His father's surname was originally Kalantaryan. His mother worked in the Soviet Ministry for Foreign Trade. Lavrov graduated from high school with a silver medal. Since his favorite class was physics, he planned to enter either the National Research Nuclear University or the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, but he entered the Moscow State Institute of International Relations and graduated in 1972.
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Foreign Minister of Russia since March 9, 2004.

[16 June 2022, five weeks since the UN Human Rights Council has approved to investigate Russian killings, torture, sexual violence, other abuses in Ukraine documented by a UN team on the ground] Russia is neither warm nor fuzzy. Russia is what it is. And we're not ashamed to show ourselves for who we are.

[16 June 2022, the 113th day of full-scale Russian war against Ukraine] We did not invade Ukraine. We have declared a special military operation.