The Russian Foreign Ministry has appointed a new director of the Department of the North Atlantic

Alexander Gusarov, a former minister adviser at the Russian Embassy in the UK, became the director of the North Atlantic Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry. This was announced on August 5 by the diplomatic department.

"By Order of the Russian Foreign Ministry No. 16883 dated July 31, 2025, Alexander Gusarov was appointed director of the Department of the North Atlantic," the agency's website says.

Gusarov was born in 1981. In 2004, he graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), after which he held various positions in the central office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and abroad. From 2012 to 2017, he was First Secretary and Adviser to the Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the European Union (EU) and Euratom in Brussels. From 2018 to 2022, Gusarov was the head of the department in the Department of Pan-European Cooperation. From 2022 to 2025, he served as an Adviser-Envoy of the Russian Embassy in the UK.

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