First Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation
Butin Sergey Vladimirovich born in 1964.
Higher education.
1987: Graduated from the Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University.
Fluent in Japanese and English.
1996: joined the Foreign Ministry.
2010−2011: Consul General of the Russian Federation in Niigata, Japan.
2011−2013: Minister Counsellor at the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Japan.
2013−2017: Deputy Director of the General Secretariat (Department).
2017−2023: Director of the General Secretariat (Department), member of the Foreign Ministry Collegium.
2023−2024: Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.
Holds the diplomatic rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, conferred on June 8, 2020.
Awards: Order of Alexander Nevsky, Order of Friendship, Certificate of Honour of the President of the Russian Federation.
Married.