President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree appointing the former head of the Russian diplomatic mission in Sudan, Vladimir Zheltov, as Russia's ambassador to Kuwait. The document was published Friday on the official portal of legal information.
"To appoint Vladimir Filippovich Zheltov as Russian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the State of Kuwait," the document reads.
With another decree, the president dismissed Nikolai Makarov, who has served as Russian ambassador to Kuwait since 2018, and with another document appointed Andrei Chernovol as head of the Russian diplomatic mission in Sudan.
Zheltov was born in 1967. He graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) of the Russian MFA. He joined the diplomatic service in 1995 and worked in various positions in the central office of the ministry of foreign affairs and abroad.
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Based on materials from TASS