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List of diplomatic missions of Russia

List of diplomatic missions of Russia

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This is a list of diplomatic missions of Russia. These missions are subordinate to the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Russian Federation has one of the largest networks of embassies and consulates of any country. Russia has significant interests in Eastern Europe, the Near East and especially in the former states of the Soviet Union. It also has extensive ties to countries in the developing world, a legacy of Cold War diplomatic efforts to extend the Soviet Union's influence in Africa and Asia which are now more important for commercial reasons.

Russian diplomatic missions

Russia established several consulates in the United States and Canada to cater to Russian immigrants. In 1917, the Tsarist government vanished, with a number of consuls who maintained tsarist loyalties establishing the "Council of Ambassadors" (Russian: Совещания послов), through which they worked as embassies without a government.[1][2] Among these were consuls in seven U.S. cities and three Canadian cities, receiving financing from the U.S. government. The consuls stopped their services in the late 1920s; the U.S. government seized the records of the consulates. The seizure started a long dispute. The National Archives and Records Administration received the documents in 1949. In 1980 the U.S. government loaned the documents of the Canadian consulates to the Library and Archives Canada. On 31 January 1990 the U.S. returned the documents to the Soviet Union and kept the microfilms as evidence.[3]

After 1992, due to financial reasons,[4] embassies in Freetown (Sierra Leone), Monrovia (Liberia), Maseru (Lesotho), Mogadishu (Somalia), Niamey (Niger), Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso), and Port Moresby (Papua New Guinea) were closed. In 1995 the embassy in Paramaribo (Suriname) also suspended operations.[clarification needed]

The Russian Federation has no diplomatic relations with Bhutan and Solomon Islands. Since Georgia and Russia severed diplomatic relations in 2008, the Swiss embassy in Tbilisi hosts a Russian interests section.[citation needed]

In February 2022, Micronesia and Ukraine severed diplomatic relations with Russia.

However, despite any obstacles led by West countries and its allies, Russia has been agreed towards new chancery or missions abroad, including Burkina Faso, South Sudan, and Equatorial Guinea agreed on July 2023, and Maldives on March 2024. Several missions in overseas has been inaugurate such as Embassy in Burkina Faso on December 2023, and General Consulate in Maldives on March 2024.

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See also

Notes

  1. The Russian Embassy to the Holy See is located outside Vatican territory in Rome.

References

  1. Kocho-Williams, Alastair (2020-08-19). ""Embassy without Government": The Council of Ambassadors and the Persistence of Tsarist Diplomacy after the Russian Revolution". Diplomacy & Statecraft. 31 (3): 469–486. doi:10.1080/09592296.2020.1782674. S2CID 221192513.
  2. Alexandr V. Kozemjakin; Roger E. Kanet (1 March 1995). "Russian policy toward sub-Saharan Africa: Disengagement or cooperation". Retrieved 12 September 2021.
  3. Embassy in Sri Lanka is perform representative functions in combination.
  4. "Request Rejected" Генеральное консульство России в Пхукете. phuket.mid.ru (in Russian). Генеральное консульство Российской Федерации в г. Пхукете. Retrieved 16 July 2022.
  5. "Trump orders expulsion of 60 Russian diplomats, closure of Seattle consulate". CBS News. 26 March 2018. Archived from the original on 2021-07-19. Retrieved 2021-07-19.
  6. 16:49, 5 апреля 2022 (5 April 2022). "Латвия закрывает генконсульства России и выдворит их сотрудников" (in Russian). Interfax.ru. Retrieved 16 July 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

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