Churkin Vitaly Ivanovich: biography and family

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Vitaly Churkin, Permanent Representative of our country to the UN, has recently become a real star, a national hero of Russia. In this article, you will learn more about this person, as well as about his family.

Childhood

Churkin Vitaly Ivanovich was born on February 21, 1952 in Moscow in the family of an aviation designer Ivan Nikolayevich, who came from the Vladimir region, and Maria Ivanovna, a housewife, born in the village of Krasny Stroitel (today Zapadnoe Biryulyovo).

Churkin graduated from a specialized Moscow school number 56 with in-depth study of foreign languages, located on the street. Demyan Bedny. By the way, journalists Tatyana Mitkova and Nikolai Svanidze graduated from the same school.

Vitaly Churkin, whose biography is of interest to a huge number of people from all over the world, from early childhood studied English individually, with a tutor. At the same time, he was always among the first among his classmates in terms of academic performance.

Also, Vitaly was the secretary of the school Komsomol organization. But he lost his well-deserved gold medal because of the behind-the-scenes intrigue that broke out at school.

Vitaly went in for speed skating, won various city competitions.

Churkin at the movies

At the age of eleven, Vitalik starred in Lev Kulidzhanov's film about Lenin "The Blue Notebook", in which he played the son of the owner of a hut. A year later, the film "Zero Three" was released, also with his participation. At the age of 13, he starred in Mark Donskoy's film "Mother's Heart" about Vladimir Ulyanov.

Education

Such a multifaceted and vigorous activity could not go anywhere. Churkin Vitaly Ivanovich in 1969, on the first attempt, entered MGIMO (Faculty of International Relations). He studied with the now famous Andrey Denisov and Andrey Kozyrev. Basically, I was interested in languages. Churkin, having graduated from the institute with honors and postgraduate studies with honors, began working at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where he later served on him and put on the famous “3 hats”. Churkin always simply spoke about this, saying that you can wear 10, the main thing is desire.

Career

Vitaly Churkin, whose biography is full of the most unexpected events, after graduating from the institute began working as an assistant in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in the translation department. In 1975, he received the rank of senior assistant, a year later - attache. Further, in 1979-1982, Churkin Vitaly Ivanovich served in the rank of 3rd secretary in the US Department. Then for another five years he worked in the United States in the Soviet embassy. Initially, he was given the diplomatic rank of 2nd Secretary. But in 1986 he became the 1st secretary of the Soviet embassy.

Churkin'sIn 1987 he returned to the USSR, becoming a referent of the international department in the Central Committee of the CPSU. For the following year, he worked as an adviser as the press secretary of Eduard Shevardnadze, the Minister of Foreign Affairs. In 1990, he began to serve in the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs (hereinafter referred to as the Russian Foreign Ministry) as the head of the information department, as well as a collegiate member of the foreign policy department.

In 1992, Vitaly Churkin, whose photo can be seen in this article, becomes Andrei Kozyrev's deputy, Minister of Foreign Affairs. For the first time in the history of Russian diplomacy, he began to hold regular open briefings for journalists from other states. And in the period 1992-1994. he was the special representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Balkans, and also engaged in negotiations between Western countries and participants in the Bosnian conflict.

In 1994, Churkin became Russia's representative to NATO and Russia's ambassador to Belgium. Since 1998, he has headed the Russian diplomatic mission in Canada. Five years later, Churkin became an ambassador-at-large, in other words, he was actually in the personnel reserve of the Russian foreign ministry. The diplomat was the chairman of the committee of senior officials of the intergovernmental international organization of the Arctic Council, and also de alt with the problems of ensuring the development of the polar regions and environmental protection.

Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN

In 2006, Vitaly Churkin, whose biography has a huge number of ups, became the Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN. A year later, at a meeting (closed) of the UN Security Council,which was devoted to the discussion of the plan to resolve the conflict in Kosovo (by Marti Ahtisaari), Churkin attacked Joachim Rücker, the head of the UN mission, with sharp criticism. It must be understood that Rucker supported this plan, which provided for the actual independence of the region, without its official recognition. The Russian diplomat came out to the journalists as one of the very first participants in the meeting, who hurried to say that the representative of the Russian Federation left the meeting of the Security Council in protest. Although Churkin himself said that he left immediately after the end of the official part, while leaving a deputy in his place: in other words, the Russian delegation did not leave the meeting room and officially declare their protest.

Professional merit

His merits can be listed endlessly, telling how he got out of the most explosive and difficult situations with dignity, as well as finding solutions to various problems of the international level. Vitaly Churkin's speeches demonstrate to the world him as a professional diplomat, although, often, the diplomat's statements baffle many. There are many examples of this. So, in 2012, information sources began to spread rumors, the main character of which was Vitaly Churkin. He allegedly threatened to erase Qatar from the Earth at the talks on the settlement of the Syrian conflict. Churkin later denied these reports.

He participated in the resolution of the conflict in Yugoslavia; also Vitaly Ivanovich was the first of the domestic diplomats who visited the headquarters of the WEU in London. In 1995, in an interview, he said that he"a little proud" of it.

At the same time, what Vitaly Ivanovich sets an example for the younger generation is also considered interesting and very important. For example, in 1999, his work interested and inspired the students of the 1522th gymnasium so much that they began to study Churkin's career growth and life, after which they wrote an essay "The owner of 3 hats." Thus, they discovered a lot of new things for themselves, found out and showed others how talent develops in such an important area for the productive development of civilization as diplomacy.

Awards

In 2009 - the Order of Honor, which was received for a huge contribution to the development of the foreign policy of the Russian Federation, an impeccable long-term diplomatic service.
In 2012 - the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, fourth degree, received for merits in promoting and protecting the interests of the Russian Federation in the international arena.

Private life

Vitaly Churkin's personal life has been stable for many years and is not publicly advertised.

Anastasia Churkina, daughter of Vitaly Churkin, works as a journalist for Russia Today TV channel. She, like her father, graduated from MGIMO.

Maxim Churkin, Vitaly Churkin's son and Nastya's younger brother, is also a MGIMO graduate.

Vitaly Churkin's wife, Irina, is almost 5 years younger than her husband. She runs the household. Opinions differ about its origin. There are rumors that she comes from a family of diplomats. Others say that her parents were military. She graduated from IIA them. Maurice Thorez. The media describe her as a beautiful, sweet and interesting woman.