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Russian diplomat In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Borisovich and the family name is Karasin.

Grigory Karasin
Григорий Карасин
Karasin in 2018
Russian Federation Senator
from Sakhalin oblast
Incumbent
Assumed office
12 September 2019
Preceded byDmitry Mezentsev
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs — State Secretary
In office
June 2005 – 10 September 2019
Personal details
Born (1949-08-23) 23 August 1949 (age 75)
Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Alma materMoscow State University

Grigory Borisovich Karasin (Russian: Григорий Борисович Карасин; born 23 August 1949) is a Russian career diplomat who formerly served as a State Secretary and a Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia.

Career

Karasin graduated from the Institute of Oriental Languages at Moscow State University in 1971, and went on to work in various diplomatic posts in the central offices of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and abroad.

From March 2000 to June 2005, Karasin was the Ambassador of Russia to the United Kingdom, and returned to Moscow in June 2005 to take up the position of Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs; since October 2005, he is also a State Secretary.

On 12 September 2019, he was appointed a member of the Federation Council, a representative of the Executive of the Sakhalin oblast, by the decree of the Governor Valery Limarenko.

Karasin speaks Russian, English, Hausa and French.

Sanctions

Sanctioned by the UK government in 2022 in relation to Russo-Ukrainian War.

See also

References

  1. ^ Карасин Григорий Борисович (in Russian). Information-Analytical Portal "Heritage". Retrieved 16 July 2008.
  2. "Deputy Ministers".
  3. Григорий Карасин назначен сенатором от Сахалинской области (in Russian). TASS. 12 September 2019. Retrieved 21 September 2019.
  4. "CONSOLIDATED LIST OF FINANCIAL SANCTIONS TARGETS IN THE UK" (PDF). Retrieved 16 April 2023.


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