Biography
Vitaly Churkin is one of the brightest diplomats on the Russian political arena. For a long time, taking a high post of Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation with the UN and the UN Security Council, he was considered a real hero of Russia against the background of the last events of the last events of Russia, since before the victory defended the interests of the country in front of Western colleagues.
Churkin Vitaly Ivanovich was born on February 21, 1952 in the capital of Russia in the family of an aircraft designer of Ivan Vasilyevich and the housewives Maria Petrovna. He was the long-awaited and the only child of his parents, so completely received all their care and love. The childhood of the future postprared of Russia in the UN has passed without special nuances - he, like all the children, loved to play, walk and have fun. But when the time of study came, young Vitaly coordinated sharply and concentrated his attention on the school curriculum.
He studied Churkin in the 56th special school with an in-depth study of English and was in a good account of teachers, since he showed interest, diligence and desire for knowledge. In addition to the main program, the parents fully developed a tendency to study a foreign language in it, so in addition to the lessons Vitaly regularly engaged in a tutor, which perfectly owned a spoken speech and was a priority of English.
Also, one of the most famous Russian diplomats as a child was actively fond of skating sports and repeatedly became the winner of the city competition. At the same time, he has been inherent in artistry and a special charisma from the young age, which allowed Churkin at the age of 11 to become a film actor. You can see Vitaly Ivanovich in the films "Blue Notebook", "Zero Three" and "Mother's Heart".
After graduating from school, Vitaly Churkin's biography still did not receive an acting direction - the young man decided to become a diplomat and from the first attempt to go to the metropolitan MGIMO at the Faculty of International Relations. His classmates were famous personals in Russian politics Andrei Denisov and Andrei Kozyrev. As in school, Churkin was one of the most diligent students in the course, which allowed him to get a red diploma. At the end of the university, he entered the graduate school, which he also successfully graduated and became a candidate of historical sciences, which opened the door to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where the diplomat was accustomed to the famous "3 hats".
Career
In 1974, Vitaly Churkin's biography became continuously connected with diplomacy. Immediately after the end of the MGIMO of the future post office of the Russian Federation, under the UN, they took a job as a referent, where a young diplomat received an increase every year. In 1979, Churkin was aimed at work in the United States as a third secretary of the USSR Foreign Ministry. The following 7 years, one of the most famous diplomats today lived in the States, where he worked in the Soviet embassy. In 1987, he returned to the USSR and took the position of the Referenta of the International Department under the CPSU Central Committee. A year later, he was appointed Advisor to Edward Shevardnadze, and next year he received a spokesman for the USSR Foreign Ministry.
At the time of the collapse of the Soviet Union, Vitaly Ivanovich managed to stay at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and in the early years led the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 1992, he received the first high post and became the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Andrei Kozyreva, with whom he studied together at one course in the university.
For the first time in the history of Soviet and Russian diplomacy, he began to conduct open briefings for Western journalists for the first time, which allowed him to make impeccable knowledge of foreign languages and free ownership of English. Thus, he filed an example of foreign colleagues, who also changed the style of communication with journalists and instead of banal press releases began to present information to society in simple language.
At the same time, the Russian diplomat became the official Special Representative of the President of Russia in the Balkans and took an active part in the negotiations between Western countries and participants in the Bosnian conflict. Two years later, Vitaly Ivanovich appointed the Russian ambassador to Belgium and in parallel he became a representative of the Russian Federation to NATO.
In 1998, Churkin was sent to Canada, where he performed a diplomatic mission for five years. In 2003, the diplomat received the position of ambassador on special instructions of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and actually became a personnel reservist of the Russian foreign policy department.
Since 2006, the career of the diplomat went to take off. He was appointed permanent representative of Russia at the UN and the UN Security Council, whose duties performed more than 10 years.
POSTRED RF in the UN
In the post, Vitaly Ivanovich revealed his professionalism and fully justified the confidence of the Russian government and the people. He was called the genius of diplomacy with steel nerves, which proudly and confidently defended the interests of their country in an international organization. Thanks to the composure and restraint, he repeatedly argued his ability to dialogue, fully weighing all the risks and uncomfortable situations in any matter.
Achievements Vitaly Churkin for Russia is difficult to overestimate. He regularly proves the ability to solve complex and acute questions exclusively in the key of the state interests of the Russian Federation. The presentations of the post office of the Russian Federation under the UN demonstrate all over the world, despite the fact that he skillfully put any western colleague in a dead end.
He until the last day defended the interests of Russia at the UN Security Council meetings, entering into a hard clinch with Western colleagues. Also, during its diplomatic activity, it has repeatedly used its right veto and blocked the draft resolutions that were ready to support the overwhelming majority of its Western colleagues.
In particular, Churkin applied veto in 2012 on the draft resolution on Syria, in 2014 - in Ukraine, and in 2015 he became the only opponent for the adoption of a resolution on the creation of the International Tribunal on the Boeing 777 aircraft crash, which suffered a crash in the Donetsk region in Ukraine. In his opinion, this catastrophe does not carry the security threat to the whole world, therefore, it should be investigated as a criminal offense.
Personal life
Personal life Vitaly Churkin is also constant as his diplomatic career. The diplomat did not like to advertise his family affairs to society. It is known that the spouse of Irina is younger than it for 5 years, now she does not deal any activity by paying all its time to household and family.
Vitaly Churkin has two children - Anastasia and Maxim. The daughter of the Postrepreneur of the Russian Federation under the UN works a journalist on Russian TV channel Russia Today. This has repeatedly caused scandalous replicas from the West, who believed that the daughter is biased by the reports about the activities of the Father. Vitaly Ivanovich is very quickly the presets of attack by foreign journalists. He stated that he considers Nastya a professionally from his business, which keeps the strict distance and does not mix the family with work.
The son of Vitaly Churkin also went in the footsteps of the Father, he graduated from MGIMO and currently lives in Moscow. Nothing is known about the professional activities of Maxim Churkina.
In addition to work, Vitaly Churkin was fond of larger tennis and swimming. He also did not forget the children's passion for cinema and loved to browse the films of past years.
Death
On February 20, 2017, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharov reported that Vitaly Churkin died in New York, without having lived before his 65th birthday only one day. The news about the supreme death of the diplomat shocked the entire public.
At the moment, the official cause of the death of Vitaly Churkin is called - a heart attack. According to the latest data, the diplomat died in the building of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation in New York.