Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Russia)

See also: Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Soviet Union)

Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Министерство иностранных дел Российской Федерации
Ministry seal
Russian Foreign Ministry Building on Moscow's Smolenskaya Square.
Agency overview
Formed	1549 as Posolsky Prikaz
Jurisdiction	President of Russia
Headquarters	32/34 Smolenskaya-Sennaya pl, Moscow
Minister responsible	Sergey Lavrov
Child agency	Rossotrudnichestvo
Website	www.mid.ru

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (Russian MFA; Russian: Министерство иностранных дел Российской Федерации, МИД РФ) is the central government institution charged with leading the foreign policy and foreign relations of Russia. It is a continuation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, which was under the supervision of the Soviet Ministry of External Relations. Sergey Lavrov is the current foreign minister.

Ministers of Foreign Affairs

Main article: List of Russian foreign ministers

• Mikhail Yakovlev 1959–1960
• Sergey Lapin 1960–1962
• Mikhail Menshikov 1962–1968
• Aleksey Rodionov 1968–1971
• Fodor Titov 1971–1982
• Vladimir Vinogradov 1982–1990
• Andrey Kozyrev 1990–96
• Yevgeny Primakov 1996–98
• Igor Ivanov 1998–2004
• Sergei Lavrov 2004–

Overseas schools

See also: List of Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia overseas schools

The ministry operates a network of overseas schools for children of Russian diplomats.

See also

• Foreign relations of Russia
• SVR
• Russian Foreign Services

In connection with the Moscow building that houses the Ministry's main office:

• All-Russia Exhibition Centre
• Hotel Leningradskaya
• Ministry of Heavy Industry of Russia
• Moscow State University
• Palace of Soviets
• Academy of Science (Riga)
• Seven Sisters (Moscow)
• Triumph-Palace
• Warsaw Palace of Culture and Science

External links

• Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation
• Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (Russian)