Viktor Chernomyrdin

FILE Ambassador of the Russian Federation to Ukraine Viktor Chernomyrdin in Kyiv, April 4, 2007. On Thursday, June 11, 2009, President of Russia by his decree dismissed Viktor Chernomyrdin from post of Ambassador of the RF to Ukraine, having appointed him as a counsellor of the President of the RF and having entrusted him with duties of special representative of the President on issues of economic cooperation with states - participants of the CIS. Photo by Aleksandr Chekmenev /UNIAN