Ambassador of the Russian Federation to ASEAN

H.E. Mr. Evgeny Zagaynov

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation 

Born in 1967.

1989: graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations.

Speaks English, Spanish and Bulgarian.

1989-1993: Attaché at the Embassy in the Republic of Cuba.

1993-1996: Third Secretary, Latin America Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.

1996-2000: Second Secretary, First Secretary at the Embassy of the Russian Federation in the Republic of Bulgaria.

2000-2003: First Secretary, Legal Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.

2003-2006: Counsellor, Senior Counsellor at the Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the United Nations Office and Other International Organizations, Geneva.

2006-2009: Deputy Director-General, Legal Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.

2009-2013: Deputy Chief of Staff, Office of the First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation.

2013-2018: Deputy Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations, New York.

2018-2023: Director-General, Legal Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.

2021-2023: Member of the Foreign Ministry Collegium.

Since 2018: Member of the International Law Commission.

Since April 2023: Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.

Awarded the Order of Friendship.

Married, with two children.