March 2004; 3 January 2007 – 26 March 2008) Aleksei Borodavkin (26 March 2008 – 5 December 2011) Aleksei Meshkov (6 September 2001 – 20 January 2004; 25 December 2012 – 23 October 2017) Vasily Nebenzya (1 June 2013 – 26 July 2017) Anatoly Antonov (29 December 2016 – 21 August 2017) Gennady Gatilov (24 January 2011 – 31 January 2018) Grigory Karasin (27 July 1996 – 25 March 2000; 10 June 2005 – 10 September 2019) Current Deputy Foreign Ministers Yevgeny Ivanov (5 October 2017 – present) (State-Secretary; relations with CIS countries, relations with other state bodies) Sergei Ryabkov (15 August 2008 – present) (relations with American countries and security and disarmament issues) Mikhail Bogdanov (12 June 2011 – present) (relations with African countries and the Middle East) Igor Morgulov (22 December 2011 – present) (relations with Asian countries) Oleg Syromolotov (19 March 2015 – present) (on countering terrorism) Aleksandr Pankin (23 October 2017 – present) (relations with European organizations, countries of Western and Southern Europe) Aleksandr Grushko (6 September 2005 – 23 October 2012; 22 January 2018 – present) Sergei Vershinin (27 March 2018 – present) Andrei Rudenko (19 September 2019 – present) General Directors of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Doku Zavgayev (13 August 2004 – 23 September 2009) Mikhail Vanin (23 September 2009 – 6 April 2012) Sergei Mareyev (6 April 2012 – 22 August 2015) Current General Director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Sergei Vyazalov (22 August 2015 – present) See also Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation (SVR) Foreign relations of Russia Russian Foreign Services In connection with the Moscow building that houses the Ministry's main office: All-Russia Exhibition Centre Hotel Leningradskaya Ministry of Heavy Industry of Russia Moscow State University Palace of Soviets Academy of Science (Riga) Seven Sisters (Moscow) Triumph-Palace Warsaw Palace of Culture and Science References External links Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Russia