Grigoriy Karasin

Main candidate for the post of Ambassador of the Russian Federation to Ukraine, deputy of Foreign Minister of the RF Grigoriy Karasin at opening of Center of Culture and Science of Russia in Kyiv, on Thursday, June 11, 2009. President of Russia by his decree from June 12, 2009 relieved Viktor Chernomyrdin of the post of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the RF to Ukraine and 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 UNIAN V. Chernomyrdin took the post of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the RF to Ukraine from 2001. he is 71 years old. Photo UNIAN