|
IVANOV, Igor Sergeyevich
Secretary of the Russian Security Council
 Born September 23, 1945 in Moscow
1969 - graduated from Morris Torez State Foreign Languages Pedagogical Institute (now the Moscow University of Linguistics)
1969-1973 - junior researcher, Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), within the Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R. (now the Russian Academy of Sciences).
1973-1983 - second secretary, first secretary, counselor and minister, Soviet Embassy in Spain
1983-1984 - expert, First European Department, U.S.S.R. Ministry of Foreign Affairs
1984-1986 - advisor and then aide to the foreign minister of the U.S.S.R.
1984-1986 - counselor to the foreign minister, and then assistant minister of foreign affairs.
1987-1992 - deputy chief and then chief of the General Secretariat Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the U.S.S.R.
1989-1991 -board member, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the U.S.S.R.
1991-1993 - ambassador of the Russian Federation to Spain
1994-September 1998 - first deputy minister of foreign affairs of the Russian Federation
September 1998-March 9, 2004 - minister of foreign affairs of the Russian Federation; member of the Security Council of the Russian Federation; member of the Cabinet Presidium
March 9, 2004-present - secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation.
Honors and Awards: Rank IV Order For Service to the Fatherland (1996), Rank II Order For Service to the Fatherland (1999).
Fluent in Spanish and English.
Married, has a daughter.
Contact information
Security Council of the Russian Federation
4/10 Ipatyevsky Per.
Moscow 103032
Tel.: +7 (095) 910 33 34
Fax: +7 (095) 206 41 62
http://www.scrf.gov.ru
Press contact:
Ksenia Borisovna Voshchina
Tel.: +7 (095) 910 31 51
Email: malinovski_an@gov.ru
Ivanov is generally considered to have avoided aligning himself with one or another political grouping or clan. He has maintained the image of a Western-style non-politicized civil servant. Though he generally favored further development of relations with Europe while foreign minister, Ivanov’s colleagues say that he avoided putting an emphasis on any particular region in Russia’s foreign policy and preferred maintaining a balance between the East and the West.
last updated April 17, 2004
| 
