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cabinets. He held the post of Minister of Health and Social Development from 9 March 2004 to 24 September 2007. On 13 August 2009, Zurabov was appointed ambassador of Russia to Ukraine, replacing former

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in that role.Dmitry Medvedev signed the Executive Order appointing Mikhail Zurabov Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to Ukraine
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on 2 March 2010.

Biography

Zurabov was born on 3 October 1953. He completed his undergraduate degree at the State University of Management in Moscow, and his master's degree at the All Union Scientific Research Institute for System Research under Stanislav Sergeevich Shatalin (russian: Шаталин, Станислав Сергеевич). He held the position of Chairman of the

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from 1999 to 2004. Zurabov is married to Yulia. They have a biological daughter Anastasia, and one grandson. In 2006 they adopted a young boy.

Relations with Ukraine

Zurabov speaks Russian and

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. In an interview with Izvestiya v Ukraine in June 2010 Zurabov, as an ambassador to Ukraine, asserted that Russians and Ukrainians are a single nation with "some nuances, peculiarities, but a single nation". Zurabov allowed himself to announce the Ukrainian anthem "Ukraine has not perished" as a Russian folk song that was to be performed by the

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choir during

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in June 2012. The Ukrainian officials that were invited, however, continued to munch on their food without expressing any protests.The Russian ambassador called the Ukrainian anthem a Russian folk song
''Rupor.info'' 8 June 2012

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Zurabov, Mikhail Medvedev Administration personnel Ambassadors of Russia to Ukraine 1953 births Living people Diplomats from Saint Petersburg Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (Russian Federation) Pro-Russian people of the 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine Recipients of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 4th class Health ministers of Russia State University of Management alumni Politicians from Saint Petersburg