Igor Ivanov | |
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Игорь Иванов | |
 Ivanov in 2014 | |
| Secretary of the Security Council of Russia | |
| In office 9 March 2004 – 17 June 2007 | |
| President | Vladimir Putin |
| Preceded by | Vladimir Rushailo |
| Succeeded by | Valentin Sobolev (acting) Nikolai Patrushev |
| Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
| In office 30 September 1998 – 24 February 2004 | |
| President | Boris Yeltsin Vladimir Putin |
| Preceded by | Yevgeny Primakov |
| Succeeded by | Sergey Lavrov |
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| Born | (1945-09-23)23 September 1945 (age 80) Moscow,Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Alma mater | Moscow State Linguistic University |
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Igor Sergeyevich Ivanov (Russian:И́горь Серге́евич Ивано́в; born 23 September 1945) is a Russian politician and diplomat who wasForeign Minister of Russia from 1998 to 2004 under both theYeltsin and thePutin administrations.
Ivanov was born in 1945 in Moscow to aRussian father and aGeorgian mother (Elena Sagirashvili).[1] In 1969 he graduated at the Maurice Thorez Moscow Institute of Foreign Languages (Moscow State Linguistic University). He joined theSoviet Foreign Ministry in 1973 and spent a decade in Spain. He returned to theSoviet Union in 1983. In 1991 he became theambassador in Madrid.
He was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs on September 11, 1998. As Russian foreign minister, Ivanov was an opponent ofNATO's action inYugoslavia. He was also an opponent of theU.S. invasion of Iraq. Ivanov played a key role in mediating a deal betweenGeorgian PresidentEduard Shevardnadze and opposition parties duringGeorgia's "Rose Revolution" in 2003.
Ivanov was succeeded bySergey Lavrov as foreign minister in 2004, and appointed by PresidentVladimir Putin to the post ofSecretary of theRussian Security Council. On 9 July 2007, he submitted his resignation,[2] which was accepted byPresident Putin on 18 July.
Ivanov is the president of theRussian International Affairs Council (RIAC),[3] and is a professor at theMoscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO-University), a member of the Supervisory Council of theInternational Luxembourg Forum on Preventing Nuclear Catastrophe, and a member of theEuropean Council on Tolerance and Reconciliation.
In 2011, Ivanov became a member of the Advisory Council ofThe Hague Institute for Global Justice, and in 2014 worked forThe Moscow Times.[4] In recent years, he appears to be staying out of the limelight and not getting involved in politics and public activities proactively.
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