Yuri Fedotov

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Yury Fedotov
Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
In office
9 July 2010 – 31 December 2019
Succeeded byGhada Waly
Ambassador of Russia to the United Kingdom
In office
9 June 2005 – 27 August 2010
Preceded byGrigory Karasin
Succeeded byAlexander Yakovenko
Personal details
Born
Yury Viktorovich Fedotov

(1947-12-14)14 December 1947
Sukhumi, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union
Died16 June 2022(2022-06-16) (aged 74)
Austria
Alma materMoscow State Institute of International Relations

Yury Viktorovich Fedotov (Russian: Юрий Викторович Федотов, 14 December 1947 – 16 June 2022) was a Russian politician. He was executive director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and director-general of the United Nations Office at Vienna (UNOV) from 2010 until 2019.[1] He was the Ambassador of Russia to the United Kingdom from 2005 until 2010.[2] Fedotov was born in Sukhumi, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union. From 2002 until 2005, he was the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs.

Fedotov died on 16 June 2022 in Vienna, Austria at the age of 74.[3]

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  1. "UNODC Executive Director Yury Fedotov". UNODC.
  2. Yury Fedotov Russian embassy in UK bio on Fedotov
  3. read0, DJ Kamal MustafaWorld 0 1 min (2022-06-16). "Yury Fedotov former Russian diplomat died at age 76". EMEA TRIBUNE Breaking News, World News, Latest News, Top Headlines. Retrieved 2022-06-16.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)