Russian President Vladimir Putin has appointed Dmitry Polyanskiy as the country’s new Permanent Representative to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). The decree was published on the official legal information portal.
The document states: “To appoint Dmitry Alexeyevich Polyanskiy as the Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in Vienna, Republic of Austria.”
Polyanskiy has served in Russia’s Foreign Ministry since 1993. Between 2008 and 2011, he was Minister-Counsellor at the Russian Embassy in Poland. In 2011, he became Deputy Director of the First Department for CIS Countries at the Russian Foreign Ministry, and since 2018, he has held the position of First Deputy Permanent Representative of Russia to the United Nations in New York.
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