Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of USSR to the USA (1962-1986)

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of USSR and Russia to Laos (1990-1993), Кirghizia (1996-2002), Consul General of USSR in Krakov, Poland (1980-1986)

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of USSR to Japan (1967-1976), Permanent Representative to the UN (1976-1986)

President and co-owner of the largest Public Joint Stock Company LUKOIL

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of USSR to the Great Britain and Malta (1980-1986), the first Rector of the Diplomatic Academy (1968-1980)

Head of the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation (2000-2013)

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of USSR and Russia to Yemen (1980-1984), Lebanon (1996-1999), Rector of the Diplomatic Academy (1986-1993)

Prime Minister of the Russian Federation (1998-1999), Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia (1996-1998), Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

Head of Foreign Policy Department of the Diplomatic Academy

Honorary President of the Russian International Law Association

Russian political scientist, orientalist

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Permanent Representative of USSR to the international organizations in Vienna (1979-1988)

Director of the Federal Financial Monitoring Service

Professor of the Diplomatic Academy

Chief Researcher of the Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia

UN Deputy Secretary General (1994)

Director of the John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies, Harvard University, USA (1995)

Rector of the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna (1995)

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Chile (1997)

Deputy Prime Minister of Lebanon (1997)

Professor, President of the Korean Foundation for International Exchanges (2001)

Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Syrian Arab Republic (2001)

President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (2001)

President of the Slovak Republic (2001)

President of the Kyrgyz Republic (2001)

President of the Republic of Armenia (2003)

Chairman of the Association of Foreign Affairs and Trade of the Parliament of the Republic of Korea (2003)

Prime Minister of the Republic of Bulgaria (2009)

Chairman of the Senate of Kazakhstan, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva (2009)

President of the Republic of Ireland (2010)

Prominent political and public figure in Japan (2010)

American statesman, diplomat, scientist and Nobel Peace Prize (2013)

an Italian politician, president of the Italian Society for International Organization (2014)

First Prime Minister of Singapore (2014)

President of the State of Palestine (2014)

President of the Republic of India (2015)

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Korea to the Russian Federation (2017)

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People's Republic Of China Korea to the Russian Federation (2018)

Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (2019)