Zdzisław Aleksander Raczyński (born 18 October 1959 in Werpol) is a Polish diplomat, journalist and novelist, currently serving as and officer in the

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(MFA). He was raised in

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. He was educated at

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, under the Faculty of Political Science, and graduated in

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Moscow State Institute of International Relations Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) (, also known as MGIMO University) is an higher education, institute of higher education located in Moscow, Russia. The institute is run by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Russia), Russian ...

. From 1990 to 1996 he was the

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foreign correspondent in

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. From 1997 to 2000 he was an advisor to the head of the National Security Bureau. He joined the MFA in May 2001, where he was the director of Eastern Policy Department, then the deputy director of the Europe Department. From 2004 to 2007 he was the Polish ambassador to

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, and from 2010 to 2014 the ambassador to

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. From October 2016 and 2021 he was also the leader of the Solidarity Polish trade union unit at the MFA. As a journalist and novelist, Raczynski published several articles on Russia policy issues and the Arab world. In 2018, he published the novel ''Harib,'' about the Libyan Revolution (). His 2021 novel ''Poppy Seeds on the Eyelids'' () is about the Holocaust of a Jewish community in a small town in eastern Poland.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Raczynski, Zdzislaw A. 1959 births 21st-century Polish novelists Ambassadors of Poland to Armenia Ambassadors of Poland to Tunisia Living people Moscow State Institute of International Relations alumni People from Siemiatycze County Polish reporters and correspondents Solidarity (Polish trade union) activists