“Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia Andrei Rudenko will deal with the Asian direction, the CIS direction will be led by Mikhail Galuzin,” RIA Novosti quotes a message from the foreign ministry.
Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin dismissed Mikhail Galuzin from the post of ambassador to Japan and appointed him deputy head of the Russian Foreign Ministry.
Prior to this, Putin appointed Yury Klimenko as the new Russian ambassador to Spain and Andorra.