Sergey Lavrov

Sergei Victorovich Lavrov is a Russian diplomat and politician who has served as the Foreign Minister of Russian Federation since 2004. Lavrov served as the Permanent Representative of Russian Federation to the United Nations from 1994 to 2004. Lavrov was born on 21 March 1950 in Moscow, to an Armenian father from Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, and a Russian mother from Noginsk, Russian SFSR. His father's surname was originally Kalantaryan. His mother worked in the Soviet Ministry for Foreign Trade. Lavrov graduated from high school with a silver medal. Since his favorite class was physics, he planned to enter either the National Research Nuclear University or the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, but he entered the Moscow State Institute of International Relations and graduated in 1972.