Semyon Grigoryev has replaced Igor Lyakin-Frolov as the Ambassador of the Russian Federation to Tajikistan. Photo: Internet By his decree dated August 16 of this year, Putin relieved Igor Lyakin-Frolov of his duties as the extraordinary and plenipotentiary ambassador of the Russian Federation to Tajikistan. The new ambassador is Semyon Grigoryev. Igor Lyakin-Frolov completed his […]
Semyon Grigoryev has replaced Igor Lyakin-Frolov as the Ambassador of the Russian Federation to Tajikistan.
Photo: InternetBy his decree dated August 16 of this year, Putin relieved Igor Lyakin-Frolov of his duties as the extraordinary and plenipotentiary ambassador of the Russian Federation to Tajikistan.
The new ambassador is Semyon Grigoryev.
Igor Lyakin-Frolov completed his mission on July 30. He served as the Ambassador of Russia to Tajikistan for nearly nine years, from August 1, 2013. Prior to this, he was the ambassador to Burundi (1995–1999) and Botswana (2003–2008).
Previously, since August 2018, Semyon Grigoryev worked in the department for relations with federal subjects, parliament, and public associations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Before that, from 2008 to 2018, he was the Ambassador of Russia to Abkhazia. In 2000–2001, he was a political advisor to the OSCE mission in Tajikistan.
He speaks Persian, Pashto, and English.