Sergey Lavrov

Sergey Viktorovich Lavrov (Russian: Сергей Викторович Лавров; IPA: [sʲɪrˈɡʲej ˈvʲiktərəvʲɪtɕ lɐˈvrof]) was born on March 21, 1950, and is a Russian diplomat who has been serving as the Foreign Minister of Russia since 2004. He is the longest-serving Russian Foreign Minister since Andrei Gromyko during the Soviet era.

Sergey Lavrov graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) in 1972. He received his first diplomatic posting in Sri Lanka and is fluent in Sinhala, Dhivehi, English, and French, in addition to his native Russian. From 1981 to 1988, Lavrov held several positions within the diplomatic service at the Soviet Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York City. In the late 1980s, he served as the deputy director and then as the director of the Foreign Ministry's Department of International Organizations. He became Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1992 and later served as the permanent representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations from 1994 to 2004.

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