Sergey Ivanovich Kislyak

Sergei Ivanovich Kislyak (Russian: Сергей Иванович Кисляк; born September 7, 1950) is a Russian ambassador.

Life

1973 closed Kislyak studying at the Moscow Physical Engineering Institute from 1977 to study at the Academy of Foreign Trade of the USSR. In the same year he joined the Foreign Service of the Soviet Union. In 1981, Kislyak the office of second secretary at the Permanent Mission of the Soviet Union at the United Nations in New York City. In 1985 he was appointed the first secretary and came to the Counsellor at the Embassy of the USSR in Washington DC.

From 1989 to 1991 Kislyak was deputy director of the Department of International Organizations at the Soviet Foreign Ministry. He then spent two years as deputy director of the department of international scientific and technical cooperation of the Russian Foreign Ministry, before he was appointed director of this department in 1993. Kislyak 1995 became director of the Department of Security and Disarmament Affairs in the Russian Foreign Ministry.

1998 he was appointed Russian ambassador in Belgium. He took his official residence in Brussels, at the same time he was accredited as Permanent Representative of Russia to NATO.

On July 26, 2008, appointed by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to his ambassador to the United States.