Boris Pankin

Boris Dmitrievich Pankin (Russian Борис Дмитриевич Панкин; Scientific Trans Boris Pankin Dmitrievič; born February 20, 1931 in Frunze, Kyrgyz SSR ) is a Russian writer and former diplomat. In 1991, he was the last for about three months of regular Foreign Ministers of the Soviet Union.

After studying journalism at Moscow State University, he worked from 1953 to 1973 for the Komsomolskaya Pravda. Subsequently, he was from 1973 to 1982 Chairman of the Board of Allunionsagentur for copyrights of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. In this role, he completed several international treaties for the USSR, most recently in 1982 with Austria.

In 1982 he joined the diplomatic service. He represented the Soviet Union from 1982 to 1990 as Ambassador to Sweden and 1990/91 in Czechoslovakia. During the August coup in 1991, he condemned as the highest-ranking diplomat to the coup immediately. Therefore, Gorbachev made ​​him on 28 August as the successor of the hapless Bessmertnych. In less than 100 days, the State Department was in fact disempowered by the victory of Yeltsin in power struggle with Gorbachev and Pankin appointed in December 1991 as ambassador to Great Britain. After the end of the USSR at the end of 1991 now he retained the office as Russian ambassador. In 1993, he resigned in protest against the beginning of the conflict in Chechnya to retire. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Global Panel Foundation.

Works

• About Abramov, Aitmatov, Ostrowski, Trojepolski and others. Essays. Berlin 1976
• Strict literature. Essays. Berlin 1982
• The last hundred days of the Soviet Union. London, New York 1996. ISBN 1850438781
• Ambassadör i Folkhemmet. , 2004. ISBN 9197480010