The Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Federal Republic of Nigeria is the official representative of the President and the Government of the Russian Federation to the President and the Government of Nigeria. The ambassador and his staff work at large in the

Embassy of Russia This is a list of diplomatic missions of Russia. These missions are subordinate to the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Russian Federation has one of the largest networks of embassies and consulates of any country. Russia has significant ...

Abuja Abuja () is the capital and eighth most populous city of Nigeria. Situated at the centre of the country within the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), it is a planned city built mainly in the 1980s based on a master plan by International Plann ...

. The post of Russian Ambassador to Nigeria is currently held by

Alexey Shebarshin Alexey Leonidovich Shebarshin (born 9 July 1959) is a Russian politician and diplomat. He is the current Russian Ambassador to the Nigeria, Federal Republic of Nigeria. He was appointed by President Vladimir Putin in 2018. Education and career ...

, incumbent since 20 April 2018.

History of diplomatic relations

Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and New Zealand were established at the mission level on 12 January 1961. The first

ambassador An ambassador is an official envoy, especially a high-ranking diplomat who represents a state and is usually accredited to another sovereign state or to an international organization as the resident representative of their own government or sov ...

, , was appointed on 21 November 1961. With the

dissolution of the Soviet Union The dissolution of the Soviet Union, also negatively connoted as rus, Разва́л Сове́тского Сою́за, r=Razvál Sovétskogo Soyúza, ''Ruining of the Soviet Union''. was the process of internal disintegration within the Sov ...

in 1991, representatives continued to be exchanged between the Russian Federation and Nigeria.

History of diplomatic relations

List of representatives (1961 – present)

Representatives of the Soviet Union to Nigeria (1961 – 1991)

Representatives of the Russian Federation to Nigeria (1991 – present)

See also

References