President Vladimir Putin signed a decree appointing Alexander Darchiev as Russia’s Ambassador to the United States, Interfax reports.
“To appoint Alexander Nikitich Darchiev as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the United States of America and Permanent Observer of the Russian Federation to the Organization of American States in Washington, United States of America, concurrently,” the document, published on the official legal information portal, says.
The American side handed over to the Russian side a note with an agrément on the appointment of the Director of the North Atlantic Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry Darchiev as the new ambassador to Washington on February 27 during consultations in Istanbul, Smolenskaya Square reported.
Darchiev was a counselor-envoy of the Russian Embassy in the United States from 2005-2010, and from October 2014 to January 2021 he was the Russian Ambassador to Canada.
The previous ambassador to Washington, Anatoly Antonov, was relieved of his duties by decree of the Russian president on October 10, 2024.
According to Vedomosti, Darchiev is a candidate of historical sciences (he defended his dissertation on the topic “Left-liberal forces in the socio-political life of the USA, 1970s-1980s”), speaks English and French. In 2019, he was awarded the Order of Friendship, and in 2022, the Order of Honor. He is married and has a daughter.