Lavrov and Churkin. Interesting facts.

Vitaly Churkin
Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations and the UN Security Council.
He graduated from the 56th Moscow special school with in-depth study of the English language (the same school he graduated from the journalists Nikolai Svanidze and Tatiana Mitkov).
A well-deserved gold medal lost because of the hostile attitude towards him by the headmistress of the school. He lost at the last moment, in the final examination of the literature, where he set about writing "4". Three years after the ill-fated exam teacher of Russian language and literature, involuntarily involved in the ugly history, admitted his classmates that "Churkin work really worth all of your combined».
He graduated from the Moscow State Institute. Candidate of Historical Sciences. He speaks English, French and Mongolian.



In his youth, appeared in three movies:
in the film "A Mother's Heart" (1965. In the picture 13-year-old plays the role Churkin Fedka),
in the movie "Blue Notebook" (1963. Emelyanova role Koli, the son of the owner of the hut in which Lenin was hiding in Razliv),
in the film "Three Zero" (1964,. the role of Eddie, the son of Olga)



March 19, 2014 the US permanent representative to the United Nations Samantha Power on his phrase that the referendum in Crimea was absolutely legitimate, said: "We Churkin more imagination than that of Tolstoy and Chekhov, a thief can steal, but it does not give him ownership of the stolen. "
In response, Churkin countered: "Ms. Power, beginning with a reference to Tolstoy and Chekhov, but finished, down to the level of the tabloid press. We absolutely do not accept insulting remarks about his country. If the US delegation looks forward to our cooperation in the Security Council, it should be Mrs. Power is firmly grasp ».



September 1, 1983. after a Soviet fighter shot down over the Sea of ​​Okhotsk near Sakhalin, a South Korean "Boeing" with passengers, Churkin was the only diplomat, USSR Embassy in the United States, in Washington, who was able to get the press and answer very difficult questions.
August 26, 2008 Churkin said that Russia officially recognized South Ossetia and Abkhazia, and on the same day at a press conference in New York, said: "Russia is not going to recognize Kosovo's independence, you will never live to see this from us."
Agree with Western counterparts in the UN he has rarely, if he managed to anyone personally do not quarrel!
Vitaly's wife - a teacher, a teacher of the French language. The daughter Anastasia Churkin working on the channel Russia Today.
Nicknamed "Mr. No»





Sergei Lavrov.
Russian Foreign Minister since 2004.
About his parents, little is known: the father - Tbilisi Armenian by the name of Kalantarov (according to the «Georgian Times» of 28.01.2008), his mother worked in the Ministry of Foreign Trade. Lavrov graduated from the Moscow school № 607 with profound study of English with a silver medal, and one of his favorite subjects were physics. Therefore, I am going to enter the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute and MIPT, but entered the in MGIMO since MGIMO entrance exams held a month earlier than in the other.
He speaks English, French and Sinhalese (main Ceylon), however, according to him, is not able to speak fluently in French.
Immediately after entering the institute, before the start of school, Lavrov and other students were sent for a month to build the Ostankino TV tower.
In September 2008, Lavrov became a member of the loud political scandal. The publication The Daily Telegraph reported that the Minister, in a telephone conversation with British Foreign Secretary David Miliband on the conflict in South Ossetia has expressed his extreme irritation phrase: «Who are you to fuck lecture me?» («Who are you ... to lecture me?). September 14th Lavrov voiced his version of the conversation: "In order to acquaint Miliband with a slightly different assessment had to tell him about the characteristics of Saakashvili, who gave him a colleague from one European country -" fucking lunatic "(fucking crazy).
Lavrov interested in rafting: it floated on rafts on the mountain rivers of Altai, along with friends, alumni of MGIMO 1972-1974 period. The campaigns of the group there is a clear division of responsibilities, Lavrov serves as the campfire - looking for firewood, chopping them, and kindle the fire. He likes to play the guitar. In 1999, after one of the campaigns Lavrov preparing for reunion and wrote a song - dedication to the institute, which later became the anthem of the MGIMO.
According to some reports, Lavrov, the appointment in 2004, Putin set a condition that that every year let Foreign Minister hiking with friends and without bodyguards.

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Lavrov was the first acting Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, the child who was in the United States. When Lavrov was Russia's representative to the UN, his daughter Catherine was admitted to Columbia University in New York City.

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Sergey Viktorovich heavy smoker. He refused to carry out the disposal of the UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, who following the example of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg introduced a ban on smoking at headquarters. Lavrov said: "This house belongs to all members of the UN and its Secretary General only a manager," and defiantly continues to smoke in special places

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