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Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, born in 1931, was the former General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the last General Secretary of the Supreme Soviet. The former Soviet Union was the first and last to be the first and last to implement the ** system.
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Sergei Viktorovich Lavrov is the head of Russia (since 2004), graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations in 1972 and later entered the Soviet Union. From 1972 to 1976 he worked at the Embassy of the USSR in Sri Lanka. In 1976, he returned to China and worked in the Department of International Economic Organizations.
In 1981, he was appointed First Secretary of the Soviet Mission to the United Nations, and was later promoted to Counsellor and Senior Counsellor. Since 1988, he has served as Deputy Director and Director of the Department of International Organizations and Global Affairs. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Lavrov became Russia's deputy minister in 1992 and Russia's permanent representative to the United Nations in 1994.
On March 9, 2004, Putin appointed him as the head of Russia.
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Lavrov was born in Moscow on March 21, 1950, into a family of cadres. His father was from Tbilisi, Georgia, and was Armenian, so Lavrov called himself "my roots are in Georgia, but Armenian blood flows in my veins." Lavrov's mother, who is Russian and works in the Russian Ministry of Foreign Trade, also takes his mother's surname.
Interested in the history of international relations since childhood, he entered the Moscow Institute of International Relations with honors. During his university years, Lavrov was fluent in English and French, as well as the more obscure Sinhala language. In Soviet times, at the beginning of September every year, first-year university freshmen went to work on construction sites instead of studying in classrooms.
Lavrov is handsome, plays the guitar well, listens and understands people's points of view when conversing. He soon became the soul of his co-workers and classmates, and was selected as the organizer of the college's mass cultural work. Passionate about his job, he created and directed the "Bun with Cabbage" (a party organized by the university students themselves, performing various self-written satirical and burlesque shows).
His passion for the cause continued into his own career, even abroad. In July 2005, the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) was held in Vientiane, Laos, during which a traditional Russian "cabbage-stuffed bun" party was held, during which Lavrov performed an anticstic performance imitating the Jedi Knight character from the movie "Star Wars".
In 1972, Sergei Lavrov, fresh out of university, was sent to Sri Lanka as the embassy's general counsel, and he became a translator, personal secretary and assistant, supervising agreements and doing analytical work. There he spent the days of the elementary diplomatic school from to (the first and last letter of the Russian alphabet). Four years later, he was back in ***.
Lavrov was the first to be assigned to the United Nations in 1981 and returned to Moscow in 1988. In April 1992, at the age of 42, Lavrov became the deputy of then-Foreign Minister Kozyrev, in charge of cooperation with international organizations, the CIS Bureau and the Bureau of International Economic Cooperation. In a short period of time, his rich experience in working in multilateral organizations of the United Nations made him favored by the then ** Yeltsin, and he returned to New York in 1994 as Russia's permanent representative to the United Nations.