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2009:

  1. A conversation with Vitaly Churkin, Russia's Ambassador to the U.N.
    A conversation with Vitaly Churkin, Russia's Ambassador...

    with Vitaly Churkin on Jun 11, 2009

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    30 min
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  2. Daily Highlights Thursday June 11, 2009
    Daily Highlights Thursday June 11, 2009

    with Vitaly Churkin and Dave Matthews on Jun 11, 2009

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    7 min
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2008:

  1. An update on the conflict between Georgia and Russia
    An update on the conflict between Georgia and Russia

    with Vitaly Churkin on Aug 12, 2008

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    17 min
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  2. A conversation with Vitaly Churkin, Russia's Ambassador to the U.N.
    A conversation with Vitaly Churkin, Russia's Ambassador...

    with Vitaly Churkin on Mar 27, 2008

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    28 min
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    8 comments
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2007:

  1. A conversation with Russia's Ambassador to the U.N.
    A conversation with Russia's Ambassador to the U.N.

    with Vitaly Churkin on Jul 5, 2007

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    28 min
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    7 comments
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Vitaly Churkin is the current Permanent Representative (Ambassador) of the Russian Federation to the United Nations. He replaced Andrey I. Denisov on May 1, 2006, when he presented his credentials to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan.

He graduated from the Moscow Institute for Foreign Affairs in 1974, and began working for them then, and received a PhD in history from the USSR Diplomatic Academy in 1981. He was then Director of the Information Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)/ Russian Federation. He also served as a spokesman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, and was Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation from 1992 to 1994.

Prior to his current diplomatic post, Churkin was his country?s Ambassador to Belgium from 1994 to 1998, and to Canada from 1998 to 2003. He was then Ambassador-at-Large at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, a post he held from 2003 to 2006.

He is also the chairman of the Senior Officials of the Arctic Council. Source - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitaly_Churkin