Ambassador

Vladimir Tarabrin. Born in 1957. Graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations.

He has been working in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the USSR/Russia (MFA) since 1979 and held various leading diplomatic posts in the central office of the MFA and abroad.

1998-2002 – Senior Counsellor and Legal Advisor of the Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the United Nations in New York / Alternate Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations Security Council.

2002-2008 – Deputy Director of the Legal Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

In 2008-2013 served as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Gabonese Republic.

In 2013-2017 was Ambassador at large on international anti-corruption cooperation.

In 2017-2019 – Director of the Department Crisis Situation Centre of the MFA.

In 2019-2023 – Special Representative of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation for international anti-terrorist cooperation, Director of the Department on the Issues of New Challenges and Threats of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.

Since December 2023 – Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.

Has a diplomatic rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary.

Decorated with state awards. 

Married. Has an adult son.

Speaks English and French.