New Russian ambassador appointed

Changing of the guard at the head of the diplomatic delegation of the Russian Federation. After 10 years, Sergey Razov will give way to the new ambassador Aleksey Vladimirovich Paramonov.

The amb. Yesterday Alexey Paramonov presented a copy of the credential letters accrediting him as the new ambassador of the Russian Federation to the Italian Republic to the head of the Diplomatic Protocol of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Bruno Antonio Pasquino.

The amb. Paramonov held various positions in the Ministry’s headquarters and abroad: 2004-2008 Head of Office, Deputy Director of the First European Department; 2008-2013 Consul General of Russia in Milan, from which his knowledge of Italy derives; 2013-2015 deputy director of the First European Department. Since September 2015 director of the First European Department. He is awarded the medal of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland II class (2011), the Certificate of Honor of the President of the Russian Federation (2020).