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The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation is a high-ranking
Russian government The Government of Russia exercises executive power in the Russian Federation. The members of the government are the prime minister, the deputy prime ministers, and the federal ministers. It has its legal basis in the Constitution of the Russia ...
official who heads the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (MFA Russia; russian: Министерство иностранных дел Российской Федерации, МИД РФ) is the central government institution charged with lea ...
. The foreign minister is one of the five so-called 'presidential' ministers, along with the ministers of
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and
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. Although they are members of the
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, they are directly subordinate to the
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. The foreign minister, like other presidential ministers, is nominated and appointed by the President after consultation with the
Federation Council The Federation Council (russian: Сове́т Федера́ции – ''Soviet Federatsii'', common abbreviation: Совфед – ''Sovfed''), or Senate (officially, starting from July 1, 2020) ( ru , Сенат , translit = Senat), is th ...
(whereas non-presidential ministers are nominated by the
Prime Minister A prime minister, premier or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. Under those systems, a prime minister is not ...
and appointed by the President after approval by the
State Duma The State Duma (russian: Госуда́рственная ду́ма, r=Gosudárstvennaja dúma), commonly abbreviated in Russian as Gosduma ( rus, Госду́ма), is the lower house of the Federal Assembly of Russia, while the upper house ...
). The foreign minister is also a permanent member of the Russian Security Council."Конституция Российской Федерации" (принята всенародным голосованием 12.12.1993 с изменениями, одобренными в ходе общероссийского голосования 01.07.2020) Статья 83
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Tsardom of Russia


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Russian SFSR (1917–1991)


Russian Federation (1991–present)


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Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Russia) The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (MFA Russia; russian: Министерство иностранных дел Российской Федерации, МИД РФ) is the central government institution charged with lea ...
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List of Soviet foreign ministers See also * Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Russia) * Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Soviet Russia . Soviet Soviet Foreign Ministers A foreign affairs minister or minister of foreign affairs (less commonly minister for foreign affairs) is ge ...
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Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Soviet Union) The Ministry of External Relations (MER) of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) (russian: Министерство иностранных дел СССР) was founded on 6 July 1923. It had three names during its existence: People's Co ...


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