# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/vitaly-churkin
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:35:09.455Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/vitaly-churkin"
name: "Vitaly Churkin"
slug: "vitaly-churkin"
description: "Vitaly Ivanovich Churkin was a Russian diplomat. He served as Russia's Permanent Representative to the United Nations from 2006 until his death in 2017. Previously he was Ambassador-at-Large at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (2003–2006), Ambassador to Canada (1998–2003), Ambassador to Belgium and Liaison Ambassador to NATO and WEU (1994–1998), Deputy Foreign Minister and Special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation to the talks on Former Yugoslavia (1992–1994), and Director of the Information Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the USSR/Russian Federation (1990–1992)."
tagline: "Soviet and Russian diplomat (1952-2017)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Amb_Vitaly_I._Churkin_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1952-02-21"
deathDate: "2017-02-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             5.508399060475065
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump