Pavel Kuznetsov (diplomat)
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10 August 1958
Pavel Kuznetsov | |
|---|---|
Павел Кузнецов | |
.jpg) Kuznetsov in 2019 | |
| Ambassador of Russia to Finland | |
| Assumed office 14 August 2017 | |
| Preceded by | Alexander Rumyantsev |
| Ambassador of Russia to Slovakia | |
| In office 20 April 2010 – 10 September 2014 | |
| Preceded by | Aleksandr Udaltsov |
| Succeeded by | Aleksey Fedotov |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Pavel Maratovich Kuznetsov 10 August 1958 |
| Alma mater | Moscow State Institute of International Relations |
| Awards | Order of Friendship |
Pavel Maratovich Kuznetsov (Russian: Павел Маратович Кузнецов; born 10 August 1958) is a Russian diplomat who has served as the Ambassador of Russia to Finland since 14 August 2017.[1]
Kuznetsov had been the ambassador to Slovakia from 2010 to 2014.
Kuznetsov was born in Moscow on 10 August 1958. In 1980, he graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs and entered the diplomatic work in the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
From 1980 to 1985, Kuznetsov worked as an employee of the Soviet Embassy in Finland. From 1991 to 1996 he was on a business trip for the second time as an employee of the Russian Embassy in Finland. From 1997 to 1999, he was deputy director of the Second European Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry. From 1999 to 2004 he was minister counselor of the Russian Embassy in Estonia. From 2004 to 2006, he worked as deputy director of the foreign policy planning department of the Russian Foreign Ministry, and from July 2006 to 2010, he became the director of the Second European Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry.
From 20 April 2010, to 10 September 2014, Kuznetsov was Ambassador of Russia to Slovakia.[2][3] From 2014 to 2017, he was director of the General Secretariat (Department) of the Russian Foreign Ministry.
On 14 August 2017, Kuznestov became the ambassador to Finland.[4]