Diplomat

Ambassador Sergey Kislyak

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Sergey Kislyak

Diplomat

Ambassador Sergey Ivanovich Kislyak was the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the United States between 2008 and 2017, when he took up representation of Mordovia in the Federation Council.

Before Kislyak became Russian Ambassador to the US, he held the positions of Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the Kingdom of Belgium and, simultaneously, Permanent Representative of Russia to NATO in Brussels, Belgium. He has been an employee of the Foreign Ministry of the Russian Federation since 1977.

Kislyak spoke at The Common Good Forum & American Spirit Awards 2016.