Rysslands FN-ambassadör Vitalij Tjurkin död

{{Infobox officeholder |image = MFA Paolo Gentiloni with Amb Vitaly I. Churkin, PR of the Russian Federation to the UN (cropped).jpg |office = Ambassador to the United Nations |president = Vladimir PutinDmitry MedvedevVladimir Putin |term_start = 1 May 2006 |term_end = |predecessor = Andrey Denisov |successor = |office2 = Ambassador to Belgium |president2 = Boris Yeltsin |term_start2 = 3 October 1994 |term_end2 = 25 February 1998 |predecessor2 = Sergey Kislyak |successor2 = Nikolay Afanasevsky |birth_name = Vitaly Ivanovich Churkin Виталий Иванович Чуркин |birth_date = (1952-02-21) 21 February 1952 |birth_place = Moscow, Soviet Union(now Russia) | death_date = February 20, 2017(2017-02-20) Vitaly Ivanovich Churkin (Russian: Виталий Иванович Чуркин; born February 21, 1952) is a Russian diplomat. Ambassador Churkin has served as Russia's Permanent Representative to the United Nations since 2006. He is fluent in Russian, Mongolian, French and English. 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), Director of the Information Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the USSR/Russian Federation (1990-1992).