Igor Ivanov

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Igor Ivanov

| image = Igor Ivanov 2014.jpg

| imagesize =

| order = Secretary of the Security Council of Russia

| president = Vladimir Putin

| term_start = 9 March 2004

| term_end = 17 June 2007

| predecessor = Vladimir Rushailo

| successor = Valentin Sobolev (acting)
Nikolai Patrushev

| title2 = Minister of Foreign Affairs

| president2 = Boris Yeltsin
Vladimir Putin

| vicepresident =

| term_start2 = 30 September 1998

| term_end2 = 24 February 2004

| predecessor2 = Yevgeny Primakov

| successor2 = Sergey Lavrov

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1945|9|23|df=y}}

| birth_place = Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union

| spouse =

| party =

| alma_mater = Moscow State Linguistic University

| awards = File:Hero of the Russian Federation medal.png {{Honored Employee of the Diplomatic Service (Russia)}}

| native_name = {{nobold|Игорь Иванов}}

| native_name_lang = ru

| caption = Ivanov in 2014

}}

Igor Sergeyevich Ivanov ({{langx|ru|И́горь Серге́евич Ивано́в}}; born 23 September 1945) is a Russian politician and diplomat who was Foreign Minister of Russia from 1998 to 2004 under both the Yeltsin and the Putin administrations.

Early life

Ivanov was born in 1945 in Moscow to a Russian father and a Georgian mother (Elena Sagirashvili).Foreign Policy Bulletin (2000), 11 : pp 41-94, Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2000 In 1969 he graduated at the Maurice Thorez Moscow Institute of Foreign Languages (Moscow State Linguistic University). He joined the Soviet Foreign Ministry in 1973 and spent a decade in Spain. He returned to the Soviet Union in 1983. In 1991 he became the ambassador in Madrid.

Minister of Foreign Affairs

He was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs on September 11, 1998. As Russian foreign minister, Ivanov was an opponent of NATO's action in Yugoslavia. He was also an opponent of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Ivanov played a key role in mediating a deal between Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze and opposition parties during Georgia's "Rose Revolution" in 2003.

Later career

Ivanov was succeeded by Sergey Lavrov as foreign minister in 2004, and appointed by President Vladimir Putin to the post of Secretary of the Russian Security Council. On 9 July 2007, he submitted his resignation,{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/10/world/europe/10briefs-Ray-Ivanov.html?_r=3&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin |title=Russia: Security Council Official Resigns |author=Andrew E. Kramer |newspaper=The New York Times |date=10 July 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140726032433/http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/10/world/europe/10briefs-Ray-Ivanov.html?_r=3&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin |url-status=live |archive-date=26 July 2014 }} which was accepted by President Putin on 18 July.

Ivanov is the president of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC),{{Cite web|url=http://russiancouncil.ru/en/about-us/presidium/|title=RIAC: Presidium|website=russiancouncil.ru|access-date=25 October 2016}} and is a professor at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO-University), a member of the Supervisory Council of the International Luxembourg Forum on Preventing Nuclear Catastrophe, and a member of the European Council on Tolerance and Reconciliation.

In 2011, Ivanov became a member of the Advisory Council of The Hague Institute for Global Justice, and in 2014 worked for The Moscow Times.{{cite news|title=Igor Ivanov |access-date=26 July 2014 |url=http://www.themoscowtimes.com/sitemap/authors/175128.html |newspaper=The Moscow Times |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140727193642/http://www.themoscowtimes.com/sitemap/authors/175128.html |url-status=live |archive-date=27 July 2014 }} In recent years, he appears to be staying out of the limelight and not getting involved in politics and public activities proactively.

Honours and awards

Hero of the Russian Federation (27 October 1999)
Order of Merit for the Fatherland, 2nd (1999) and 4th (1996) classes
Order of the Badge of Honour (1988)
Medal "In Commemoration of the 850th Anniversary of Moscow"
Honoured Worker of the Diplomatic Service of the Russian Federation (2003)
Gratitude of the President of the Russian Federation (1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999)
Grand Cross of the Order of San Carlos (2001, Colombia)
Order of Friendship (Vietnam) (2001)
Order of Saint Blessed Prince Vladimir, 2nd class (2003), Russian Orthodox Church
Commemorative Medal Gorchakov (2005, Russian MFA)
"Silver Cross" of the Russian Biographical Institute (1999)
Laureate of the "Man of the Year" (1999)

References

External links

{{C-SPAN|41581}}
[https://web.archive.org/web/20040819082455/http://www.nupi.no/cgi-win/Russland/Personer.exe?830 Personal data sheet: Igor Ivanov]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20020222001802/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/intl/article/0,9171,1107990913-30994,00.html "Igor Ivanov", TIME magazine, 13 September 1999];
[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/talking_point/2802121.stm Bridget Kendall interview with Ivanov, BBC, 5 March 2003]
[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/2820787.stm Igor Ivanov: cheery and direct, BBC NEWS]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20061101191110/http://research.rencap.com/eng/government/government_detail19.asp Igor Ivanov]

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Category:Recipients of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 2nd class