Igor Lyakin-Frolov
{{Short description|Russian diplomat}}
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| office = Ambassador of Russia to Tajikistan
| term_start = {{Start date|2013|8|1|df=y}}
| predecessor = {{ill|Yuri Popov (diplomat)|lt=Yuri Popov|ru|Попов, Юрий Фёдорович}}
| successor = Semyon Grigoriev
| president = Vladimir Putin
| office1 = Permanent Plenipotentiary of Russian to the Collective Security Treaty Organization
| term_start1 = {{Start date|2010|8|23|df=y}}
| term_end1 = {{End date|2013|7|11|df=y}}
| predecessor1 = {{interlanguage link|Aleksandr Rannikh|ru|Ранних, Александр Александрович}}
| successor1 = {{interlanguage link|Viktor Lvovich Vasilyev|ru|Васильев, Виктор Львович|lt=Viktor Vasilyev}}
| president1 = Dmitry Medvedev
Vladimir Putin
| office2 = Ambassador of Russia to Botswana
| term_start2 = {{Start date|2003|9|29|df=y}}
| term_end2 = {{End date|2008|2|29|df=y}}
| predecessor2 = {{interlanguage link|Valery Kalugin|ru|Калугин, Валерий Алексеевич}}
| successor2 = {{interlanguage link|Anatoly Korsun|ru|Корсун, Анатолий Николаевич}}
| president2 = Vladimir Putin
| office3 = Ambassador of Russia to Burundi
| term_start3 = {{Start date|1995|5|22|df=y}}
| term_end3 = {{End date|1999|8|24|df=y}}
| predecessor3 = {{interlanguage link|Artur Vesyolov|ru|Веселов, Артур Васильевич}}
| successor3 = {{interlanguage link|Gennady Gumenyuk|ru|Гуменюк, Геннадий Владимирович}}
| president3 = Boris Yeltsin
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1948|9|10}}
| birth_place = Moscow
| alma_mater = Moscow State Institute of International Relations
| awards = Order of Alexander Nevsky
Order of Honour
Order of Friendship
| caption = Lyakin-Frolov in 2018
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| native_name = {{nobold|Игорь Лякин-Фролов}}
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Igor Semenovich Lyakin-Frolov ({{langx|ru|Игорь Семёнович Лякин-Фролов}}; born 10 September 1948) is a Russian diplomat.
Biography
Lyakin-Frolov worked in the Soviet foreign ministry from 1978 until 1991, then in the Russian foreign ministry from 1992 to 1995. Since then, he has held the positions of Ambassador of Russia to Burundi from 1995 to 1999, ambassador to Botswana from 2003 to 2005, the Permanent Plenipotentiary to the Collective Security Treaty Organization from 2010 to 2013, and the ambassador to Tajikistan from 2013 to 2022.{{cite web |url=https://rupep.org/en/person/9330 |title=LYAKIN-FROLOV Igor Semenovich |author= |date=June 28, 2022 |website=RUPEP.org |publisher= |access-date=January 2, 2023 |quote=}}{{cite web |url=https://pacsto.org/events/igor-lyakin-frolov-rossiya-pomozhet-tadzhikistanu |title=Igor Lyakin-Frolov: Russia will help Tajikistan – both through the CSTO and on a bilateral basis – in case Afghan extremists penetrate the country |author= |date=20 July 2021 |website=pacsto.org |publisher= |access-date=January 2, 2023 |quote=}}
Speaks English, French and Chinese languages.
Awards
- Decoration For Impeccable Service (2004){{Cite web |title=Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 22.03.2004 г. № 385 «О награждении государственными наградами Российской Федерации сотрудников Министерства иностранных дел Российской Федерации» |url=http://www.kremlin.ru/acts/bank/20677 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160916054414/http://www.kremlin.ru/acts/bank/20677 |archive-date=2016-09-16}}
- Order of Honour (2012){{Cite web |title=Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 10.02.2012 № 160 «О награждении государственными наградами Российской Федерации» |url=http://graph.document.kremlin.ru/page.aspx?1601110 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921053729/http://graph.document.kremlin.ru/page.aspx?1601110 |archive-date=2013-09-21}}
- Order of Friendship (2017){{Cite web |title=Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 5 апреля 2017 года № 145 «О награждении государственными наградами Российской Федерации» |url=http://publication.pravo.gov.ru/Document/View/0001201704050037?index=1&rangeSize=1 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170406023251/http://publication.pravo.gov.ru/Document/View/0001201704050037?index=1&rangeSize=1 |archive-date=2017-04-06}}
- Order of Alexander Nevsky (2022){{Cite web |title=Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 21 марта 2022 года № 132 «О награждении государственными наградами Российской Федерации» |url=http://publication.pravo.gov.ru/Document/View/0001202203210033?index=9&rangeSize=1 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220322072231/http://publication.pravo.gov.ru/Document/View/0001202203210033?index=9&rangeSize=1 |archive-date=2022-03-22}}