Semyon Grigoryev
Semyon Vyacheslavovich Grigoriyev (Russian: Семён Вячеславович Григорьев; born 1960),[1] is a Russian diplomat and was the first Russian ambassador to Abkhazia, serving between 2008 and 2018. He has served as ambassador to Tajikistan since 2022.[2]
Career
[edit]Grigoriyev graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations in 1983, and went on to work at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a position at the Soviet embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan.[1]
From 1990 – 1997 he was third, second and first secretary at the Soviet and Russian embassies in Tehran, Iran.[1]
From 2003 – 2006, he was deputy director of the Fourth Department of the CIS Countries at the Russian foreign ministry, and from 2006 – 2008, he was an adviser-envoy at the Embassy of Russia in Kabul.[1]
From February 2008, he was again deputy director of the Fourth Department of the CIS Countries, specialising in issues relating to Abkhazia and South Ossetia.[1] On 25 October 2008, Russian president Dmitry Medvedev appointed Grigoriyev as the first ambassador of Russia to Abkhazia,[3] after Russia recognised Abkhazian and South Ossetian independence following the war in August 2008. Grigoriyev presented his Letters of Credence to President of Abkhazia, Sergey Bagapsh on 16 December 2008.[4]
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Falichev, Oleg (15–21 July 2009). СТРАТЕГИЧЕСКИЙ СОЮЗНИК (in Russian). Sukhum and Moscow: VPK News. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 29 July 2009. at WebCite
- ↑ "Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 16.08.2022 № 561 «О Чрезвычайном и Полномочном После Российской Федерации в Республике Таджикистан»". Archived from the original on 15 September 2022. Retrieved 14 May 2025.
- ↑ Президент Российской Федерации. Указ №1527 от 25 October 2008 «О назначении Григорьева С.В. Чрезвычайным и Полномочным Послом Российской Федерации в Республике Абхазия». (President of Russia. Ukaz #1527 of 25 October 2008 On the appointment of S.V. Grigoriyev as the Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the Republic of Abkhazia. ).
- ↑ "Президент Сергей Багапш принял Верительную грамоту оТ Чрезвычайного и Полномочного посла Российской Федерации в Республике Абхазия С.В. Григорьева". President of Abkhazia. 16 December 2008. Archived from the original on 16 February 2012. Retrieved 14 June 2009.
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