Vitaly Churkin Monument

Small park, nice monument

A monument based on merit that is an example! Vitaly Churkin deserves a lot more. Of course, the monument was placed in a good location, in front of the Kućanski gallery, and it is well visible. All praise for this kind of decoration to truly deserving personalities for the Republika Srpska, East Sarajevo and the entire Serbian nation.

Churkin was born on February 21, 1952, in Moscow, in the family of a Russian airplane designer. He started his diplomatic career in 1974. He graduated from the Moscow Institute of Foreign Affairs in 1974 (now - MGIMO, Russia) and he started working there. He received his Ph.D. in History at the Diplomatic Academy of the Soviet Union in 1981. defending his thesis: "China and Japan in the US foreign policy strategy, 1969-1980." As a child, he appeared with small roles in three feature films, two biographies dedicated to Lenin (Uljanov): "The Blue Book" (1963, directed by Levi Kulidznov); "Nula-Tri" (1964, directed by Igor Eltsov); and in the film "The Mother Heart" (1965; directed by Mark Donsky). From 1974 to 1979 he worked as a reviewer, and a senior reviewer in the Translation Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; was an interpreter in the negotiations on the SALT-2 Strategic Weapons Restriction in Geneva. From 1979 to 1982 He was the third and the first secretary of the Ministry of the Soviet Union in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From 1982 - 1987. He was the second and then the first secretary of the Soviet Embassy in the US in Washington. He testified before the US Congress on the nuclear disaster in Chernobyl, which was the first time in the history of the USSR that something like that happened, then he was a young 34-year-old diplomat, he was elected because he had the reputation of someone who fluent in English. From 1987 to 1989 he was Assistant to the International Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. From 1989-1990 he was secretary of the press of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR Eduard Shevardnadze. From 1990-1991 he was head of information department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 1991 member of the committee of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the USSR. From 1991 to 1992 he was head of the Information Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the USSR, and then of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 1992, he was an extraordinary and empowered ambassador to Chile. From June 1992 to October 1994 he was deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Kozirov. He was the special representative of the Russian president in the peace negotiations for Yugoslavia, especially in the dealings between the parties in the Bosnian conflict and the western countries. From 1994 to 1998, he was an extraordinary and empowered Russian Ambassador to Belgium and a representative of Russia in NATO. From August 26, 1998 to June 5, 2003, he was a distinguished and empowered Russian Ambassador to Canada. From 2003 to 2006 he was the Ambassador of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Chairman of the Committee of Senior Officials of the International Intergovernmental Organization of the Arctic Council. On April 8, 2006, he became Russia's permanent ambassador to the UN in New York and Russian representatives to the UN Security Council, replacing Andrei Denisov at that place. He was remembered for his fierce bouts with US ambassadors in the UN John Bolton, Zal Kalizad and Susan Pauer on questions about Kosovo and Metohia, Middle East crises, Iran ... He was awarded the Order of Honor (2009) and Order of Merit for the Service to the Fatherland IV 2012). He spoke fluently Russian, Mongolian, French and English. Vitaly Churkin passed away on February 20, 2017. on workplace. The family of Vitaly Churkin: his wife and two children. His wife, Irina, graduated from the Foreign Language Institute at Moris Torres and became an English translator. Anastasia's daughter graduated from MGIMO, Russia, correspondent for the Russian TV channel RT. Maksim's son graduated from MGIMO Russia.