Igor Vladimirovich Morgulov (russian: Игорь Владимирович Моргулов; born May 4, 1961) is a Russian diplomat, who is serving as the
Russian Ambassador to China since September 2022.
Diplomatic career
In 1983, he graduated from the
Institute of Asian and African Countries
The Institute of Asian and African Countries () at Lomonosov Moscow State University was founded in 1956 as the Institute of Oriental Languages and was renamed to the Institute of Asian and African Countries in 1972. It is a Russian Centre for ...
at
Moscow State University
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. From 1984, he worked in the
Ministry of Foreign Trade of the USSR, including the trade representation of the
Soviet Union
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in China.
From 1989 to 1991, he worked as an assistant-translator and senior assistant at the Chinese sector of the International Department of the
Central Committee of the CPSU
The Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, – TsK KPSS was the executive leadership of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, acting between sessions of Congress. According to party statutes, the committee direct ...
. Following the
dissolution of the Soviet Union
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in 1991, he was assigned to the
Foreign Ministry of Russia and held various diplomatic positions in the central office in the ministry, and in diplomatic missions in China, Japan and the United States. From 2005 to 2006, he served as the chief advisor to the First Department of Asia of the Russian Foreign Ministry, which carried responsibilities in dealing relations with China,
North Korea
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,
South Korea
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and
Mongolia
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. In 2006, he was appointed as Minister Counselor of the Russian Embassy in China. From 2009 to 2011, he was the director of the First Asian Department of the Foreign Ministry of Russia.
On December 2011, he was appointed as the Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia and at the same time, worked as chairman of the interdepartmental commission for ensuring the participation of Russia within the
Shanghai Cooperation Organisation
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. In a 2015 interview with
Interfax
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History
As the first non-governmental channel of political and economic informatio ...
, he stated that Russia would not hold a dialogue with
Japan
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on the
Kuril Islands dispute
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as it was "
settled 70 years ago", but was ready to continue negotiations on a peace treaty between Japan and Russia. In 2018, he was involved in Japan-Russia vice-ministerial level consultations with Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan .
On September 13, 2022,
President of Russia
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Vladimir Putin
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appointed Morgulov as the Russian Ambassador to China, succeeding
Andrei Denisov. On October 31, he presented his credentials to the Director-General of the Protocol Department of the
Foreign Ministry of China
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Hong Lei. In an April 2022 interview, during the
2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
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, Morgulov stated that the "friendship between Moscow and Beijing was based on overlapping basic interests and that it would not be affected by changes in the external environment."
Personal life
He is married and has two children, and is fluent in English and Chinese.
Awards and honors
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Order of Merit to the Fatherland
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* Categorization, the process in which ideas and objects are recognized, differentiated, and understood
* Heterarchy, a system of organization wherein the elements have the potential to be ranked a number of d ...
, 4th class (2022)
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Order of Alexander Nevsky
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(2020)
*
Order of Honour (2013)
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Order of Friendship
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(2015)
*
Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland"
The Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" (russian: Медаль ордена «За заслуги перед Отечеством») was established on 2 March 1994 by Presidential Decree No.442. Its award criteria were modified on 6 J ...
, 2nd class (2007)
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(2011)
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![Decoration_without_ribbon_-_en](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/29/Decoration_without_ribbon_-_en.svg)
Gratitude of the President of the Russian Federation (2011, 2021)
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![Decoration_without_ribbon_-_en](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/29/Decoration_without_ribbon_-_en.svg)
Gratitude of the Government of the Russian Federation (2009)
*
Order of Holy Prince Daniel of Moscow The Order of Holy Prince Daniel of Moscow (russian: Орден святого благоверного князя Даниила Московского) is an award of the Russian Orthodox Church, established in 1988. There are three classes.
Hist ...
, 3rd class (2021)
References
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1961 births
Living people
People from Almaty
Moscow State University alumni
Soviet diplomats
Russian diplomats
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (Russian Federation)
Ambassadors of Russia to China
Recipients of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 4th class
Recipients of the Order of Honour (Russia)
Recipients of the Order of Alexander Nevsky
Recipients of the Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" II class
Recipients of the Order of Holy Prince Daniel of Moscow