“The newly appointed Ambassador of Russia to Great Britain Andrei Kelin arrived in London on November 21. Today, November 22, he handed over copies of credentials to the British Foreign Office and set about fulfilling his duties, ”the Russian Embassy reports.
The decree on the appointment of Kelin, the former director of the Department of Pan-European Cooperation of the Russian Foreign Ministry, to this position was published on November 5.
In late August, Russian leader Vladimir Putin signed a decree dismissing Alexander Yakovenko from the post of Russian ambassador to the UK. Yakovenko became rector of the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.