Vasily Nikolaevich Nebenzya - Soviet and Russian diplomatic worker. Since 2014, he has been elevated to the rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary. Since 2017, he has been the Permanent Representative of Russia to the UN and the United Nations Security Council. In 2013–2017, he served as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.
Childhood and adolescence of Nebenz
Vasily Nikolaevich Nebenzya - a native of Volgograd, was born in 1962. Father - a participant in the Great Patriotic War, a party functionary under the Central Committee of the CPSU, candidate of economic sciences, Honored Worker of Culture of the RSFSR.
In 1983, Vasily Nikolayevich became a graduate of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs and immediately after graduation began diplomatic work.
It is worth noting that already in the days of the USSR, MGIMO was the most prestigious university in the Soviet Union and the children of high-ranking party functionaries studied there. Nebenz also had a high-ranking dad, but, according to his fellow students, Vasily himself achieved admission to the Institute of International Relations, without the assistance of his father.
Career
Since 1988, he served as attaché of the USSR Embassy in Thailand.
Since 1990, he worked as the third secretary of the Department of International Economic Relations of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Since 1992 - already the second secretary of this organization, first at the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and then at the Russian Foreign Ministry.
Since 1993, he took up the post of head of the department of the Department of International Organizations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. Since 1996, first an adviser, then a senior adviser to the Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN in New York. Since 2000 - Deputy Director of the Department of International Organizations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. Since 2006 - Deputy Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the WTO in Geneva. Since 2011 - Deputy Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation at the UN Office and other international organizations in Geneva.
Since 2012, he has become the Director of the Department for Humanitarian Cooperation and Human Rights of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. Since 2013 - Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Lavrova.
Vasily Nebenzya at present
In 2017, Vitaly Ivanovich Churkin passed away, as a result of which the position of the Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations and the UN Security Council became vacant.
Vladimir Safronkov was temporarily appointed Acting Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation. Churkin at one time firmly defended the interests of Russia and skillfully put his Western colleagues in their place. Safronkov proved that he can do it no worse than his predecessor and even overdid it a little, for which he received a reprimand from Valentina Matvienko and Sergey Lavrov.
In the same 2017, Vasily Nebenz was nominated for the post of Permanent Representative of Russia to the UN as Churkin's successor. After his candidacy was approved by the State Duma and the Federation Council by decree of the President of Russia, he was appointed to this position.
In diplomatic work, he showed himself as an uncompromising, but successful and brilliant negotiator. A true professional in his field. Speaks fluent English and Spanish.
According to many experienced diplomats, Vasily Nebenzya is the best suited for his position. He has years of impeccable diplomatic service in various positions, experience of working at the UN. Vasily Nikolaevich's professional qualities allow him to show himself worthily in protecting the interests of the Russian Federation in the international arena. The most important quality of Nebenz is the ability to competently build the negotiation process and achieve unconditional success in it.
According to Senator Franz Klintsevich, Vasily Nebenzia will have to work in a very difficult political situation, under constant pressure on Russia from the West, but Nebenzia will successfully cope with the mission assigned to him and justify the hopes placed on him.
The only drawback, according to experts, is Nebenz's reluctance to work with the press. Therefore, he will have to work on himself in terms of publicity, because in New York, the position of a Permanent Representative requires constant attention from the media.
For 2016, Vasily Nebenzya declared an annual income of 7 million 735 thousand rubles, his wife - 486 thousand rubles.
Awards
Over the years of his diplomatic service, Nebenzya has received many awards. Among them are a certificate of honor of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, a medal "For contribution to the creation of the Eurasian Economic Union."
Vasily Nebenzya considers his most important awards to be the Order of Friendship and the Medal of the Order of Merit to the Fatherland, second degree.
A family
Vasily Nikolaevich Nebenzya is married. Wife - Lyudmila Ruslanovna Nebenzya, nee Kasintseva, 1 year younger than him.
In a joint marriage in 1994, the couple had a son, who was named Sergei. In 2018 he will be 24 years old.
