The Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Republic of Botswana is the official representative of the President and the Government of the Russian Federation to the President and the Government of Botswana. 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 ...

in Gaborone. The post of Russian Ambassador to Botswana is currently held by Andrey Kemarsky, incumbent since 28 October 2020.

History of diplomatic relations

Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Botswana were established on 6 March 1970. Relations were initially handled through the embassy in Zambia, with the Soviet ambassador to Zambia,

Dmytro Bilokolos Dmytro Bilokolos ( uk, Дмитро Захарович Білоколос) (5 February 1912, Donetsk Oblast – 9 February 1993, Kyiv) was a Ukrainian politician and diplomat. Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Ukrainian SSR (1966–1970). He w ...

, concurrently accredited to Botswana. The Soviet embassy was opened in Botswana's capital, Gaborone, in August 1976. Following Bilokolos's recall on 23 June 1976, relations with Botswana were handled by the ''

chargé d'affaires A ''chargé d'affaires'' (), plural ''chargés d'affaires'', often shortened to ''chargé'' (French) and sometimes in colloquial English to ''charge-D'', is a diplomat who serves as an embassy's chief of mission in the absence of the ambassador ...

'', until the appointment of as the new ambassador to Botswana on 21 December 1977. 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, the Soviet ambassador, , continued as representative of the Russian Federation until 1992.

History of diplomatic relations

List of representatives (1970 – present)

Representatives of the Soviet Union to Botswana (1970 – 1991)

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

References