Russia's ambassador to the US, Alexander Darchiev, has passed away. The diplomat was 66 years old.
Darchiev has been involved in diplomatic work since 1992. From 2014 to 2020, he was Russia's ambassador to Canada, after which he twice headed the North American Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry. At the beginning of 2025, he was the director of the North Atlantic Department (UK, Ireland, Canada, USA) of the Russian Foreign Ministry, and in March he became the ambassador in Washington.
The last time a diplomat attended a public event was on September 23 - negotiations between Sergey Lavrov and Marco Rubio on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York Bloomberg.